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| <title>Eclipse Project 4.24 - New and Noteworthy</title> |
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| <h2>Plug-in Development Environment</h2> |
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| <li><a href="#dialogs-wizards-views">Dialogs, Wizards and Views</a></li> |
| <li><a href="#editors">Editors</a></li> |
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| <!-- <li><a href="#pde-compiler">PDE Compiler</a></li> --> |
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| <td id="dialogs-wizards-views" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Dialogs, Wizards and Views</h2></td> |
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| <tr id="event-spy"> |
| <!-- https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/issues/85 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#bundle-spy">Event Spy added to PDE</a></td> |
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| <p> The <b>Event Spy</b> allows to view the events sent using an <code>IEventBroker</code> and is now available via PDE, using the <b>Spies</b> menu or the <b>Alt+Shift+F8</b> shortcut (on windows). </p> |
| <img src="images/eventSpyMenuAndShortcut.png" alt="" /> |
| <p>Start capturing events, and check the event's contents in the table. For instance, here the spy window has moved, and all the location events were caught.</p> |
| <img src="images/eventSpyInPde.png" alt="" /> |
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| <!-- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=544838 --> |
| <td class="title"><a href="#auto-add-requirements-launches">Include requirements automatically when launching an application</a></td> |
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| The <b>Launch Configuration</b> Wizard offers a new option in the <b>Plug-ins</b> tab to include required but missing plug-ins or features automatically while launching an Eclipse or Equinox application. |
| By default this is enabled for Launch Configurations based on Features and disabled for those based on products, which reflects the previous behavior. |
| <p> |
| Missing plug-ins/features are only added to the launched application but not to the Launch Configuration. |
| This allows to specify only the 'root' features/plug-ins you actually want in your application and to let Eclipse include only the minimal set of requirements in each launch. |
| Consequently new dependencies don't have to be added to the Launch Configuration anymore. |
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| <p><img src="images/autoIncludeLaunch.png" alt="Automatically include requirements in launch"/></p> |
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| <td id="editors" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Editors</h2></td> |
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| https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=570760 |
| https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pull/7 |
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| <td class="title"><a href="#auto-add-requirements-products">Include requirements automatically when launching a product</a></td> |
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| The <b>Product Editor</b> offers a new option in the <b>Contents</b> tab to include required but missing features or plug-ins automatically when launching the product from the IDE. |
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| This controls if the corresponding option, which is described above, is activated or not for the Launch Configuration associated with the product launch. |
| By default this option is enabled for Feature and Plug-in based products to behave the same like when the product is build with <b>Eclipse Tycho</b>. |
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| <p><img src="images/autoIncludeProduct.png" alt="Automatically include requirements in product"/></p> |
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| https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=340350 |
| https://github.com/eclipse-pde/eclipse.pde/pull/107 |
| https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=578644 |
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| <td class="title"><a href="#launching-alignment">Products launched from IDE now better behave like products built with Maven/Tycho</a></td> |
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| Launching a Product from within the IDE via the <b>Product Editor</b> has been improved in the following aspects to result in an application whose set of plug-ins/features is as close as possible to what is assembled when the product is build by <b>Maven</b> and <b>Eclipse Tycho</b>: |
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| <li>Launching a product based on features creates a feature-based Launch Configuration</li> |
| <li>Missing requirements are included by default (as described above)</li> |
| <li>When launching a plugin-based product optional requirements are ignored by default when computing missing requirements</li> |
| <li>When automatically including requirements, fragments are not added just because their host-plug-in is included</li> |
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| Together with the <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.23/pde.php#eclipse-applications-launching">Improved launching of Eclipse/Equinox applications</a> in the previous release Eclipse 2022-03 it is now much simpler to set up products. |
| As an example, to create the Eclipse SDK as a Product you only have to create a Product with basic settings via the Wizard, configure it to use features and add the <code>org.eclipse.sdk</code> feature. |
| The Product is ready to launch. |
| If you want Git support, just add the <code>org.eclipse.egit</code> feature and in case you want to develop Maven projects in your Product, just add <code>org.eclipse.m2e.feature</code>. |
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