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diff --git a/platform/4.3/final/eclipse-news-part3.html b/platform/4.3/final/eclipse-news-part3.html deleted file mode 100644 index 05c71c4..0000000 --- a/platform/4.3/final/eclipse-news-part3.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,143 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> -<html> -<head> -<meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (c) Eclipse contributors and others 2013. This page is made available under license. For full details, see the LEGAL section in the documentation that contains this page."/> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"/> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/> -<link rel="stylesheet" href="default_style.css" charset="ISO-8859-1" type="text/css"/> -<style type="text/css"> -table.news td {border-top: solid thin black;} -table.news tr {vertical-align: top;} -table.news tr td.section {font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;} -table.news tr td.title {vertical-align: top; width: 30%; font-weight: bold;} -table.news tr td.content {vertical-align: top; width: 70%;} -</style> -<title>Eclipse Project Kepler - New and Noteworthy</title> -</head> -<body> - -<h2>Platform and Equinox API</h2> - -<!-- ****************** START OF N&N TABLE ****************** --> -<table class="news" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0"> -<tbody> - <!-- ******************** Platform ********************** --> - <tr> - <td id="Platform" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>Platform Changes</h2></td> - </tr> - - <tr id="e4-api"> - <td class="title">Initial Eclipse 4 API released</td> - <td class="content"> - The first set of official API based on the new Eclipse Platform 4 architecture is now available. - This is the first step in allowing developers to use the new simpler and more powerful mechanisms - to build Eclipse plug-ins and applications. - <p> - This API is comprised of two basic concepts: - </p><p> - <b>The user interface model</b>: The content of this model describes the structure of the user interface. - The Eclipse Platform reacts to changes in this model by updating the presentation, and the complete - model is now available through the new API. - </p><p> - Note that the model represents everything on the screen and these elements can be modified - by your code (see the example below). - </p><p> - <b>IEclipseContext / Dependency Injection (DI)</b>: Contexts are containers of UI runtime state - including all the available services. The typical Eclipse Platform 4 pattern is that contributions - are created and configured through dependency injection based on state and services found in the local - context for that model element. - </p><p> - Here are a few links to more information about the UI Model, the services and DI (the Javadoc and supporting - Eclipse documentation will be available before Kepler is released): - </p> - <ul> - <li><a href="http://www.eclipsecon.org/2013/sites/eclipsecon.org.2013/files/FormalAPI.pdf">EclipseCon 2013 API Slides</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseRCP/article.html">Lars' RCP Tutorial</a></li> - <li><a href="http://www.vogella.com/articles/Eclipse4Services/article.html">Lars' Services Tutorial</a></li> - <li><a href="http://eclipsesource.com/blogs/2013/04/18/eclipse-4-e4-tutorial-behavior-annotations/">Jonas Helming's DI Tutorials</a></li> - </ul> - <p> - There is quite a lot of information already available for Eclipse Platform 4. While parts of the API are just being - formalized now, most of the concepts and API existed in provisional form in previous Eclipse 4 releases. - </p><p> - Just to give a taste of what working in a modeled UI is all about, here's a code snippet showing - how to get a 'standard' Command handler to toggle the visibility of the 'Quick Access' text field - that appears in the top trim. First we gain access to the model by getting the MApplication as a - 'service'. Form there we can access the EModelService and use it to find the model element - representing the search in the UI. Then it's just a simple matter of toggling the element's - 'toBeRendered' flag to get it to (dis)appear. - </p> - <pre> -public Object execute(ExecutionEvent e) throws ExecutionException { - IWorkbenchWindow window = HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindowChecked(e); - MApplication theApp = (MApplication) window.getService(MApplication.class); - MWindow activeWin = theApp.getSelectedElement(); - EModelService ms = activeWin.getContext().get(EModelService.class); - EPartService ps = activeWin.getContext().get(EPartService.class); - MToolControl search = (MToolControl) ms.find("SearchField", activeWin); - if (search != null) { - search.setToBeRendered(!search.isToBeRendered()); - window.getShell().layout(true, true); - } - return null; -} - </pre> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr id="ua-lucene"> - <td class="title">Migrated to Lucene 3.5</td> - <td class="content"> - The Eclipse platform help system has migrated from Lucene 2.9.1 to Lucene 3.5. - This change brings improved performance and many bug fixes in help search. - Some old help system API related to Lucene has been changed or removed as part - of this fix. Refer to the platform 4.3 migration guide for more details. - </td> - </tr> - - <tr id="ant184"> - <td class="title">Platform updated to Ant 1.8.4</td> - <td class="content"> - The platform has been updated to use Apache Ant version 1.8.4. To see what is new in version 1.8.4 you can - check the <a href="http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/ant/README.html">Apache Ant what's new</a>. - </td> - </tr> - - - <!-- *********************** SWT *********************** --> - <tr> - <td id="SWT" class="section" colspan="2"><h2>SWT Changes</h2></td> - </tr> - - <tr id="xulrunner64"> - <td class="title">XULRunner on 64-bit Windows</td> - <td class="content">The browser widget now supports the embedding of XULRunner on Windows x86_64.</td> - </tr> - - <tr id="bidi"> - <td class="title">New SWT color constant for hyperlinks</td> - <td class="content"> - A new constant (SWT_COLOR_LINK_FOREGROUND) has been added that returns the native color of hyperlinks on all platforms. - <p><img src="images/linkColor.png" alt=""/></p> - </td> - </tr> - - <tr id="linkColor"> - <td class="title">BIDI Text Direction</td> - <td class="content"> - New API has been added to allow text direction to be set independent of the widget orientation. - Note that this API is currently only implemented on Windows. - <p>For more info see <a href="http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet364.java">Snippet 364</a>. - </p> - <p><img src="images/bidi.png" alt=""/></p> - </td> - </tr> - - </tbody> -<!-- ****************** END OF N&N TABLE ****************** --> -</table> - -<p align="center"><a href="eclipse-news-part2.html">Previous</a> <a href="eclipse-news-part4.html">Next</a></p> - -</body> -</html>
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