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| <title>Eclipse Project 4.25 - New and Noteworthy</title> |
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| <h2>Platform and Equinox</h2> |
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| <li><a href="#ViewsAndDialogs">Views, Dialogs and Toolbar</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#TextEditors">Text Editors</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Preferences">Preferences</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#StylingThemes">Themes and Styling</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Debug">Debug</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#GeneralUpdates">General Updates</a></li> |
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| <td id="ViewsAndDialogs" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Views, Dialogs and Toolbar </h2> |
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| <tr id="less-icons-in-user-dialogs"> <!-- multiple--> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#less-icons-in-user-dialogs">Less usage of icons in user confirmation dialogs</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| Multiple dialogs have been updated to not contain a question icon if they ask the user for a decision to align with the UI guidelines existing for the operating systems. |
| For example, if you close an edited file, the resulting dialog will not show a help icon anymore. |
| Also MessageDialogs methods will not show a question icon anymore for question / confirmation dialogs. |
| <p/> |
| <img src="images/save-resource-dialog.png" alt="" /> |
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| <h2>Text Editors </h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="enable-word-wrap-on-open"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.text/issues/67 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#enable-word-wrap-on-open">Preference to enable word wrap by default</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| In the preferences under <b>General → Editors → Test Editors</b> one can now specify that 'word wrap' |
| should be enabled by default when opening text editors. This preference is disabled by default. |
| <p/> |
| <img src="images/enable_word_wrap_on_open.png" alt="" /> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td id="Preferences" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Preferences </h2> |
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| <tr id="specify-project-encoding-severity"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.resources/issues/166--> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#specify-project-encoding-severity">Specify severity of missing project encoding check</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| In the preferences under <b>General → Workspace</b> you can now specify the severity you want to use to |
| report missing project encoding. Default is "Warning". The other available values are "Ignore", "Info" and "Error". |
| <p/> |
| <img src="images/project-encoding.png" alt="" /> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td id="StylingThemes" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Themes and Styling </h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <!-- ******************* End of Themes and Styling ************************************* --> |
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| <td id="Debug" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>Debug</h2> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| |
| <tr id="debug-system-encoding"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.debug/issues/42 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#debug-system-encoding">System encoding for Console</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| <p> |
| New launch configuration attribute is added to allow processes start with system encoding. |
| As a result, Java processes can start without specifying explicit "-Dfile.encoding=" option, so JVM will use |
| system defaults defined by user environment. |
| </p> |
| <img src="images/system_encoding.png" alt=""/> |
| <p> |
| API notes: if <code>DebugPlugin.ATTR_FORCE_SYSTEM_CONSOLE_ENCODING</code> attribute is set, |
| <code>ILaunchManager.getEncoding(ILaunchConfiguration)</code> |
| will return the value of <code>Platform.getSystemCharset()</code> and |
| <code>ILaunchConfiguration.getAttribute(DebugPlugin.ATTR_CONSOLE_ENCODING, null)</code> |
| will return <code>null</code>, indicating that default system value should be used. |
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| <tr id="debug-ansi-support"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.debug/issues/47 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#debug-ansi-support">Support for ANSI escape codes in Console</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| <p>Console interprets ANSI escape codes to produce styled output.</p> |
| |
| <p>Supports 16 colors / 256 colors / true-colors for foreground and background, color palettes, |
| and attributes like bold, italic, underline, invert, conceal, strike, crossed-out, framed:</p> |
| <p><img src="images/ansi_sample.png" width="100%" alt=""/></p> |
| |
| <p>Only <code>"CSI n m"</code> |
| (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#SGR_(Select_Graphic_Rendition)_parameters">SGR, |
| Select Graphic Rendition</a>) control sequences are supported.<br/> |
| They set display attributes, but cannot be used to change the content of the output |
| (erase actions, cursor positioning, scrolling).<br/> |
| Non-SGR sequences are not interpreted, but are recognized and hidden, so you will not see them.</p> |
| |
| <p>This functionality is available for all the text output to the standard output or standard error. |
| It works for Java, C/C++, Perl, Python, shell, Groovy, Maven, any Eclipse supported language.</p> |
| <p>Easy to control from the icons in the console toolbar:</p> |
| <p><img src="images/ansi_toolbar.png" alt=""/></p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Copy the text to Clipboard, including the escapes characters</li> |
| <li>Enable / disable the interpretation of the ANSI controls (show them "as is")</li> |
| <li>Show the Preferences dialog</li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Preferences:</p> |
| <p><img src="images/ansi_prefs.png" width="100%" alt=""/></p> |
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| <!-- ******************* General Updates ************************************* --> |
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| <td id="GeneralUpdates" class="section" colspan="2"> |
| <h2>General Updates </h2> |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="form-no-gradients"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.ui/pull/121 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#form-no-gradients">Forms default background color updated</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The UI toolkit <b>forms</b> got an updated background, as blue gradients are not very common any more in user interfaces. This will affect all form based user interfaces which do not use styling. |
| In the Eclipse IDE you will be affected if you turned theming off via the preferences. |
| <p>Old:</p> |
| <img src="images/form-old-gradient.png" alt="" /> |
| <p>New:</p> |
| <img src="images/form-new-no-gradient.png" alt=""/> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
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| <tr id="CTabFolder-highlightBar"> <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/issues/55 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#CTabFolder-highlightBar">CTabFolder now show a highlight bar for selected tab</a></td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The CTabFolder now show a highlight bar to more easily identify the the currently selected tab folder: |
| <p>Example showing the workbench, theming disabled:</p> |
| <p>Old:</p> |
| <img src="images/ctabfolder-before.png" alt="" /> |
| <p>New:</p> |
| <img src="images/ctabfolder-after.png" alt=""/> |
| </td> |
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