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Icon support for GTK Text widgets | The text widget can now display the search and cancel icons inside the widget. This runs on Linux platforms with a GTK version of 2.16 or greater. |
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Mozilla Browser Support on Solaris SPARC | Mozilla browser support has been added for the Solaris SPARC platform (Solaris 10, GTK+). |
Browser.close() API | Browser.close() is used to close a Browser, but allows the close to be cancelled by an onbeforeunload handler. See Snippet 326. |
Multipage TIFF image | Support for loading multipage TIFF images is now available. |
Key event for F16-F20 | Added new constants for key events from F16 to F20. |
DND.FEEDBACK_INSERT_BEFORE and DND.FEEDBACK_INSERT_AFTER for Table | The default drop target effect for Table now supports DND.FEEDBACK_INSERT_BEFORE and DND.FEEDBACK_INSERT_AFTER. |
Horizontal Mouse Wheel | Added new event for horizontal mouse wheel. See SWT#MouseHorizontalWheel and SWT#MouseVerticalWheel. |
StyledText: variable tab stops | New API in StyledText allows the application to specify a non-uniform sequence of tab stops. See Snippet 325. |
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StyledText: per line variable tab stops | Improved current support to allow each line to have its own sequence of tab stops. |
CLabel set/get margins | New API has been added to CLabel to set and get the left, top, right and bottom margin spacing. |
Key location |
A new field has been added to key event to allow the application to identify which key originated the event.
See Event.keyLocation .
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New API in Scrollbar |
New methods have been added to Scrollbar to return the bounds for the thumb and its track.
See ScrollBar.getThumbBounds() and ScrollBar.getThumbTrackBounds() .
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State mask for Selection events | The stateMask is now set in Selection and DefaultSelection events for all native controls. |
Orientation event |
A new event has been added to Text, Combo, and StyledText. It is sent when the writing direction is changed via keyboard shortcut.
See SWT.OrientationChanged
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Browser.setUrl() can specify post data and headers | New Browser API setUrl(String url, String postData, String[] headers) allows clients
to include post data and add/override header values when initiating HTTP requests. See
Snippet 330.
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SWT for PowerPC 64 | PowerPC 64 has joined the lineup of supported configurations for which SWT and Eclipse are routinely built. |
Wrap indent in StyledText | StyledText and TextLayout now offer API to allow the application to control the amount of indent space for wrapped lines. See Snippet 331. |
Improved bidi segments support | The bidi segments support in StyledText and TextLayout was changed to allow the application to specify which Unicode Control Characters to use in the segments boundaries. See Snippet 332. |
Right-to-Left text support on Cocoa |
On Cocoa, setting the SWT.RIGHT_TO_LEFT flag changes the default text reading direction to right to left.
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Skin engine support |
New API added to allow CSS engines to skin widgets at the appropriate time (See SWT.Skin and Widget#reskin(int) ). For more info see Snippet 333.
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New layout API |
New API added to Composite to support automatic deferred layout.
See Composite#layout(Control[], int) .
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Browser.setText() can restrict content permissions |
New Browser API setText(String html, boolean trusted) allows clients to restrict the permissions
that are given to Browser content that is set from a String. Restricting permissions is suggested when the
source of the content is not trusted.
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Accessibility upgrade (preview) |
SWT Accessibility has new API for making applications more accessible to Assistive Technology products such as screen readers. Note that this API is still early access. Snippet 334 shows a simple custom text control with enhanced text accessibility. |
SWT.OpenDoc Event |
A new event type has been added to SWT to notify applications that a document should be opened. Listeners for OpenDoc events can be added to a Display. Support has also been added to the Equinox launcher, and the Eclipse workbench. Users are now able to associate file types to Eclipse and have Eclipse launched when they open a file of an associated type. |
Program working directory |
New API has been added to Program to allow the working directory to be specified when launching an executable. See |
XULRunner 1.9.2 support |
The Browser now has full support for the recent release of XULRunner 1.9.2. |
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TaskItem Overlay Image |
The new API |
TaskItem Overlay Text |
The new API |
TaskItem Progress |
The new APIs |
TaskItem Menu |
The new API Running on Mac OS X: |
CTabFolder Renderer |
CTabFolder has been improved and now allows clients to change its look by implementing their own renderers. |
Gradients on CTabFolder unselected tabs |
New API has been added to CTabFolder to allow a gradient background on unselected tabs. See Snippet 339 for more info. |
Accessibility |
The enhanced Accessibility API on all platforms has been finalized and released. |
Custom Traversals |
New API |
DrawBackground at an offset |
New API was added in |
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Browser can use WebKitGTK+ |
Linux users can now use WebKitGTK+ instead of Mozilla as the Browser control's native renderer. See Can the Browser use the WebKit renderer on GTK?. |