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| <h1>Eclipse Project 4.4 M5 - New and Noteworthy</h1> |
| <p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in milestone build M5 |
| (January 24, 2014) which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/" target="_top">download</a>. |
| <br/> |
| We also recommend to read the Tips and Tricks, either via <b>Help > Tips and Tricks...</b> or online for |
| <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tips/platform_tips.html">Platform</a>, |
| <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/tips/jdt_tips.html">JDT</a>, and |
| <a href="http://help.eclipse.org/topic/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/tips/pde_tips.htm">PDE</a>. |
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| <ul> |
| <li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#JDT">JDT</a></li> |
| </ul> |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform">Platform</td> |
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| <tr id="minimized-stack-option"> |
| <td class="title">New option for minimized stacks</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| We've extended the MinMaxAddon to have two different display modes: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Use Overlays: This is the current mode where showing a view in a |
| minimized stack opens it in a 'fly out', overlaying part of the |
| presentation.</li> |
| <li>Show in the Original Location: This is a new mode that will temporarily put the |
| stack back into the perspective layout while one of its views is active. This |
| has the advantage that the minimized view won't overlay anything in the |
| current presentation (e.g. your editor...).</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| In order to access the new mode, right-click on the <b>Restore</b> button |
| of a minimized stack and select the <b>Show in the Original Location</b> menu item (see image |
| below). Note that this change is global, so once it's set, all minimized |
| stacks will use the selected mode.</p> |
| <p><img src="images/restore-btn.png" alt=""/></p> |
| |
| <p>Here's what the current mode looks like:</p> |
| <p><img src="images/use-overlays.png" alt=""/></p> |
| <p>Here's what the new mode looks like. Note how the editor |
| has been pushed to the right rather than being obscured:</p> |
| <p><img src="images/no-overlays.png" alt=""/></p> |
| <p> |
| We're really interested in your feedback on this! The initial response |
| has been positive enough that we're considering making the non-overlay |
| mode the default. What do you think? (Post your comments on <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=426556">bug 426556</a>). |
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| <tr id="workspaceLock"> |
| <td class="title">Removed WorkspaceLock API</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The <code>WorkspaceLock</code> API allowed a special client (usually Platform UI) to |
| hook into the locking protocols used by the workspace implementation. This hook |
| was used to mitigate deadlocks due to interaction with synchronous SWT events, |
| and was never intended to be used by other clients. In the 3.0 release this API |
| was deprecated in favor of a more general API provided by the <code>org.eclipse.core.jobs</code> |
| bundle. Invoking this API has had no effect since the 3.0 release. The specific API |
| being removed includes: |
| <ul> |
| <li>The <code>org.eclipse.core.resources.WorkspaceLock</code> class.</li> |
| <li>The method <code>org.eclipse.core.resources.IWorkspace#setWorkspaceLock</code></li> |
| </ul> |
| Clients that directly use an API listed above should remove any references to it. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="incrementalProjectBuilder-getRule"> |
| <td class="title">Removed IncrementalProjectBuilder#getRule() API</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The <code>IncrementalProjectBuilder#getRule()</code> method returned a scheduling rule |
| that was required for building the project by the builder. This method was intended to be used by the builder framework only. |
| In the 3.6 release this method was deprecated in favor of a more general method <code>IncrementalProjectBuilder#getRule(int, Map)</code>. |
| The specific API being removed includes: |
| <ul> |
| <li>The method <code>org.eclipse.core.resources.IncrementalProjectBuilder#getRule()</code></li> |
| </ul> |
| Clients that directly call the API listed above should remove any references to it |
| or replace them with calls to <code>IncrementalProjectBuilder#getRule(int, Map)</code>. Clients that implement the API listed |
| above should implement <code>IncrementalProjectBuilder#getRule(int, Map)</code> instead. |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="swt-gtk-problem"> |
| <td class="title">SWT does not work on Linux with GTK+ 3 version > 3.8.x</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| The Linux GTK+ 3 port of SWT is currently broken for GTK+ versions above 3.8.x. |
| This primarily affects users running Fedora 20, Ubuntu 14.04 (Alpha builds), openSUSE 13.1 and any other Linux distributions that bundle GTK+ 3.10.x. |
| As a workaround, users are advised to switch back to GTK+ 2 by setting the environment variable <code>SWT_GTK3</code> to <code>0</code>. |
| For more details see <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=421127">bug 421127</a>. |
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| </tr> |
| <tr id="swt-xulrunner24"> |
| <td class="title">SWT Browser now supports XULRunner 24.x</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| An SWT Browser created with style <code>SWT.MOZILLA</code> can now be used with the XULRunner 24.x runtime. |
| </td> |
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| <tr id="sleep-monitor-api"> |
| <td class="title">Added API for sleep monitoring</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| SWT has added two new events, <code>SWT.Sleep</code> and <code>SWT.Wakeup</code>, |
| which are sent before the <code>Display</code> event loop goes into sleep and after |
| it wakes up from sleep respectively. These events can e.g. be used to monitor the duration |
| of sleep time in SWT applications. |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="JDT">JDT</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr id="syntax-color"> |
| <td class="title">Enabled coloring of variables</td> |
| <td class="content"> |
| Parameter variables and local variables are now colored by default: |
| <p><img src="images/variable-coloring.png" alt=""/></p> |
| This can be disabled or configured with different colors and styles on the <b>Java > Editor > Syntax Coloring</b> preference page. |
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| <p>The above features are just the ones that are new since the previous milestone |
| build. Summaries for earlier Luna milestone builds:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M4-201312121600/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M4 (December 13, 2013)</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M3-201310302000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M3 (November 1, 2013)</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M2-201309182000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M2 (September 20, 2013)</a></li> |
| <li><a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/S-4.4M1-201308072000/news/">New for Eclipse Luna milestone build M1 (August 9, 2013)</a></li> |
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