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| <h1>Eclipse Project Neon (4.6) M1 - New and Noteworthy</h1> |
| <p>Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in the Neon milestone build M1 |
| which is now available for <a href="http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/#4.6_Stable_Build" target="_top">download</a>. |
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| 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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| <li><a href="#Platform">Platform</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#Platform-Dev">Platform Developers</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#PDE">PDE</a></li> |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform">Platform</td> |
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| <td class="title">Preference setting to disable the Eclipse styling (CSS based theming)</td> |
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| You can disable the CSS-based styling of the Eclipse IDE via |
| <b>Preferences > General > Appearance > Enable theming</b>. |
| This will prevent Eclipse from rendering custom colors, shades, and borders, and may result in better performance. |
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| <img src="images/enable-disable-theming.png" alt=""/> |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="Platform-Dev">Platform Developers</td> |
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| <td class="title">Drag and drop for toolbars in Eclipse applications without CSS styling</td> |
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| The Eclipse styling engine allows to configure drag images via CSS. In previous releases, applications without this setting would not support drag and drop of toolbars. |
| Eclipse RCP applications without the related CSS styling now support drag and drop of toolbars out of the box. This applies also for applications which disable the CSS-based styling. |
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| <td class="title">Additional varargs constructor for MessageDialog</td> |
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| The <code>org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.MessageDialog</code> class has now an additional vararg constructor that simplifies passing button labels. |
| <p> |
| Old: |
| </p> |
| <pre>new MessageDialog(shell, "MessageDialog", null, "DialogMessage", |
| MessageDialog.NONE, new String[] { "Button1", "Button2" }, 0); |
| </pre> |
| New: |
| <pre>new MessageDialog(shell, "MessageDialog", null, "DialogMessage", |
| MessageDialog.NONE, 0, "Button1", "Button2"); |
| </pre> |
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| <td class="title">Workbench logger supports debug level</td> |
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| Previously, the workbench logger wrote a trace when <code>Logger#debug(Throwable)</code> was called, |
| even if the application was not started in debug mode. |
| Now, log entries on the debug level are ignored, unless the application is started with the debug flag (-debug). |
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| <td class="title">Support for @CanExecute of MDirectMenuItem and MDirectToolItem</td> |
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| Previously, methods annotated with @CanExecute were only evaluated on execution for MDirectMenuItems and MDirectToolItems, not on rendering. |
| So if the method annotated with @CanExecute returned false, the rendering was not updated to show the menu/tool item disabled. |
| Now @CanExecute method is also evaluated during rendering, to show the enabled state according to the method result. |
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| <td colspan="2" class="section" id="PDE">PDE</td> |
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| <td class="title">Product editor "Dependencies" tab renamed to "Content"</td> |
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| The "Dependencies" tab in the product editor was renamed to the more descriptive term "Content". |
| This avoids confusion with the "Dependencies" tab in the MANIFEST.MF editor. |
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| <img src="images/producteditor.png" alt="New label for content in the product"/> |
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| <td class="title">Retirement of the Eclipse 4 project wizard</td> |
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| As PDE offers now Eclipse 4 RCP templates, the separate Eclipse 4 project generation wizard has been retired. |
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