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Confidential | Date | Other Information, if necessaryAugust 27, 2008

What’s new in 3.3(Platform UI Edition)

Boris Bokowski

Kevin McGuire

IBM Ottawa Lab

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Who we are

� Kevin McGuire

� Platform UI committer

� Former IBM WebSphere Integration Developer UI design & development lead

� Former Team/CVS team lead & committer

� Work game: Call of Duty

� Boris Bokowski

� Platform UI committer

� Former CTO for Hype Softwaretechnik Gmbh

� Former Team/CVS committer

� Work game: Halo

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Agenda

� On the glass

� What the user sees

� Changes in look

� Changes in interaction

� New features

� Under the hood

� Enhancements to programmatic features

� Vista

� Launching

� Viewer changes

� Mozilla Everywhere

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Part 1: On the glass

� (Kevin McGuire)

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Who ever thought this made sense?

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Same minimizations in 3.3

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Goals

� Interested in UI space usage adapting to task changes

� Maximization of working area

� Simple metaphor that is close enough to existing that people will

“just get it”

� As a bonus: integration with Fast View approach to unify into one interaction metaphor

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Minimize sequence

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Minimize sequence (2)

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Minimize sequence (3)

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To restore…

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Each view now a Fast View

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Workbench default color scheme

(old)

(3.2x)

(3.3)

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Rules per platform scheme

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Truncation + icons for unselected views

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Curves on unselected tabs

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Forms improvements

(3.2x)

(3.3)

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Quick Access (Cntrl-3)

Find anything

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New Text features

� Automatic spell checking in all (non executable) text

� Drag & Drop editing [68 votes]

� Word/Line select (triple click) [33 votes]

� Flexible Templates

� Team Annotations

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Text – flexible templates

� Remember all those cool

Java templates like

“sysout” expands to System.out.println()?

� Now you can create your

own and edit existing!

� New capability provided by

platform Text (but here

used by JDT)

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Template variables are quite powerful

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Expand your template in-place

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Team annotations

� Allows you to see the

changes in a file on a per-

team member basis

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Enabling team annotations

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Showing additional information

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See Who changed What

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When What changed

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Extensible hyperlink detection

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Debug

� Step into

� Cntrl-alt-click to jump into method calls

� Previously you’d need to run to line or put breakpoint

� With 1.6 VM, with a variable selected you can

� Find references

� Find all instances

� (Java now almost as cool as Smalltalk)

� (Demo)

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Part 2: Under the hood

� (Boris Bokowski)

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Vista

� Two versions

� Win32:Vista L&F for all existing API

� WPF:

early access

new capabilities, e.g. XAML styling

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Vista

� Win32 Vista L&F for all existing API

� WPF (early access, new capabilities)

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Mozilla everywhere

� XULRunner on all platforms

� Access toDOM etc.

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Native launcher

� Console launcher

� SWT on Splash Screen

� (PDE has templates)

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Data binding

� Keep model and

UI in sync

� No listeners

� Converters,

Validators

� Snippets!

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Status handling

� Branding and/or extending the error dialog

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Status handling

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JFace viewers for other widgets

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Table and tree viewer N&N

� Snippets!

� Editing more flexible and easier

to set up

� Keyboard navigation (Tab,

Arrows)

� Owner draw

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