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© 2002 IBM Corporation

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

What’s new in 3.3(Platform UI Edition)

Boris Bokowski

Kevin McGuire

IBM Ottawa Lab

Copyright © 2006 IBM Canada, Inc., Made available under the Eclipse Public License v 1.0

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


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


Part 1: On the glass

� (Kevin McGuire)


Who ever thought this made sense?


Same minimizations in 3.3


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


Minimize sequence


Minimize sequence (2)


Minimize sequence (3)


To restore…


Each view now a Fast View


Workbench default color scheme

(old)

(3.2x)

(3.3)


Rules per platform scheme


Truncation + icons for unselected views


Curves on unselected tabs


Forms improvements

(3.2x)

(3.3)


Quick Access (Cntrl-3)

Find anything


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


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)


Template variables are quite powerful


Expand your template in-place


Team annotations

� Allows you to see the

changes in a file on a per-

team member basis


Enabling team annotations


Showing additional information


See Who changed What


When What changed


Extensible hyperlink detection


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)


Part 2: Under the hood

� (Boris Bokowski)


Vista

� Two versions

� Win32:Vista L&F for all existing API

� WPF:

early access

new capabilities, e.g. XAML styling


Vista

� Win32 Vista L&F for all existing API

� WPF (early access, new capabilities)


Mozilla everywhere

� XULRunner on all platforms

� Access toDOM etc.


Native launcher

� Console launcher

� SWT on Splash Screen

� (PDE has templates)


Data binding

� Keep model and

UI in sync

� No listeners

� Converters,

Validators

� Snippets!


Status handling

� Branding and/or extending the error dialog


Status handling


JFace viewers for other widgets


Table and tree viewer N&N

� Snippets!

� Editing more flexible and easier

to set up

� Keyboard navigation (Tab,

Arrows)

� Owner draw


(End of presentation)

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