Here are descriptions of some of the changes of interest to plug-in developers made to the Eclipse Platform and SWT for the 4.29 release of Eclipse.
New features oriented towards end-users of the platform can be viewed in the What's New section of the Eclipse Platform User Guide.
SWT Changes |
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| Control.setFocus() no longer activates its Shell |
Previously calling Control.setFocus() also activated its
Shell. This behavior was never documented and was never
explained why it existed. But it caused problems: setting focus
to a control in a background Shell caused the Shell to jump on user.
Now setting focus just sets focus, even if the Shell is in the background.
To also bring Shell to front, explicitly call
This change can be disabled using a Java property.
For Example, add this VM argument in -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.activateShellOnForceFocus=true Note: this property is only added temporarily and will be removed later. See SWT Issue 450 |