Here are descriptions of some of the changes of interest to plug-in developers made to the Eclipse Platform and SWT for the 4.27 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.
Platform Changes |
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Persistence and migration of perspectives |
Migrate and apply existing 3.x perspectives on e4 applicationsTo support migrating existing user-specific perspectives from the 3.x applications a
new API was added to the platform.ui.tools:
To directly apply an existing perspective to the running e4 application:
Alternatively you can convert the stored perspective to an
Store and load perspectives of e4 applicationse4 does not allow to load and store perspectives in the same way it was possible in 3.x .
In order to do so a new API was added to the platform.ui.tools:
To store a perspective of the running e4 application using its id:
To load a stored perspective:
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