THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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This
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document
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discusses
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some
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of
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the
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major
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functional
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changes
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between
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Pivot
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1.5.x
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and
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Pivot
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2.0.
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Core
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- Rename
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- org.apache.pivot.wtkx.WTKXSerializer
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- to
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- org.apache.pivot.beans.
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- BXMLSerializer
Despite
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- its
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- name
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- and
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- inclusion
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- in
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- the
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- WTK
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- library,
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WTKXSerializer
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- never
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- had
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- any
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- actual
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- dependency
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- on
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- WTK.
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- In
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- Pivot
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- 2.0,
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- this
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- class
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- has
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- been
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- renamed
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- to
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BXMLSerializer
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- and
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- moved
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- to
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- the
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- Core
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- library
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- to
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- reflect
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- its
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- more
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- general
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- nature.
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- It
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- has
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- also
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- recieved
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- a
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- number
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- of
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- updates
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- and
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- improvements,
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- discussed
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- below.
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- Create
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- an
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- annotation
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- to
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- specify
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- the
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- default
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- "child"
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- property
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- of
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- a
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- component
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Classes
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- can
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- now
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- specifiy
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- a
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- default
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- property
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- using
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- the
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- new
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@DefaultProperty
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- annotation.
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- For
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- example,
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- the
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org.apache.pivot.wtk.Window
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- class
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- declares
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- a
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- default
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- property
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- of
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- "content",
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- making
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- the
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<content>
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- element
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- in
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- markup
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- optional.
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- Taking
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- advantage
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- of
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- default
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- properties
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- can
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- significantly
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- reduce
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- the
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- verbosity
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- (and
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- indent
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- depth)
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- of
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- BXML
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- markup.
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- Add
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- support
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- for
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- dynamic
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- data
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- binding
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Pivot
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- 1.5
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- and
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- earlier
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- supported
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- data
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- binding
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- via
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- a
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- load/store
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- model
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- that
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- maps
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- well
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- to
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- client/server
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- applications
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- such
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- as
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- REST
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- clients.
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- However,
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- a
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- more
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- dynamic
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- model,
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- where
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- a
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- property
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- of
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- a
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- target
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- element
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- is
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- automatically
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- updated
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- whenever
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- a
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- source
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- value
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- changes,
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- is
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- also
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- useful
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- in
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- many
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- circumstances.
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Pivot
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- 2.0
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- adds
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- support
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- for
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- declaratively
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- creating
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- such
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- dynamic
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- binding
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- relationships
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- as
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- well
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- as
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- the
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- ability
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- to
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- define
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- them
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- in
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- code.
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- For
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- example,
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- the
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- following
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- markup
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- creates
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- a
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- binding
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- association
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- between
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- a
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- page
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- variable
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- named
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- "myText"
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- and
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- the
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- "text"
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- property
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- of
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- a
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Label
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- instance. Any time the value of "myText"
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- changes,
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- the
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- value
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- of
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- the
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- label's
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- "text"
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- property
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- is
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- also
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- updated:
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<Label text="${myText}"/> |
- PIVOT-546 Bindable improvements
TheBindableinterface allows a caller to easily associate Java code with markup defined in BXML. It defines a single method,initialize(), that is called on the root element of a BXML document once the document has been completely loaded.
ThoughBindablewas actually introduced in Pivot 1.5, it did not provide all of the information an implementing class might need. Pivot 2.0 adds arguments containing the serializer's namespace, resources, and location, to theinitialize()method. Any@BXMLannotations defined on theBindableclass are also processed prior to the call toinitialize(). This allows the implementing class to get access to the document's namespace (i.e. page variables), the resources that were used to load it, and the location it was loaded from, to perform any necessary post-processing (for example, registering event listeners).
- PIVOT-537 Move message processing functionality to pivot-core
Pivot 1.5 included a pub/sub messaging API as part of theorg.apache.pivot.wtk.ApplicationContext
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- class.
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- However,
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- like
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- WTKXSerializer,
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- this
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- API
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- didn't
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- actually
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- have
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- a
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- dependency
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- on
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- WTK.
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- It
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- has
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- been
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- moved
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- to
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org.apache.pivot.util.MessageBus
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- to
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- reflect
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- this.
...
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- Allow
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- serializers
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- to
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- fire
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- events
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- as
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- data
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- is
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- read
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The
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org.apache.pivot.json.JSONSerializer
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- ,
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org.apache.pivot.serialization.CSVSerializer
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- ,
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- and
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org.apache.pivot.xml.XMLSerializer
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- classes
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- allow
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- an
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- application
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- to
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- read
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- structured
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- content
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- from
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- an
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- input
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- stream.
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- In
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- Pivot
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- 1.5
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- and
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- earlier,
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- callers
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- had
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- to
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- wait
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- until
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- the
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Serializer#readObject()
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- method
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- returned
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- in
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- order
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- to
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- access
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- the
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- deserialized
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- data.
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- Pivot
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- 2.0
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- allows
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- developers
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- to
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- hook
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- into
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- the
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- serialization
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- process
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- and
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- be
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- notified
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- as
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- data
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- is
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- read.
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- For
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- example,
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JSONSerializer
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- now
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- fires
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- events
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- whenever
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- a
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- string,
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- number,
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- boolean,
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- list,
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- or
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- map
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- is
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- read,
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- and
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XMLSerializer
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- fires
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- events
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- as
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- elements
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- and
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- text
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- nodes
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- are
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- read.
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- This
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- allows
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- a
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- caller
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- to
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- update
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- the
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- UI
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- incrementally
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- rather
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- than
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- waiting
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- until
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- the
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- entire
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- stream
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- is
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- read,
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- making
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- an
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- application
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- seem
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- considerably
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- more
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- responsive.
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WTK
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- Add
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- support
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- for
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- named
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- styles
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While
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- Pivot
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- has
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- always
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- provided
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- support
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- for
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- modifying
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- the
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- appearance
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- and
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- behavior
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- of
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- components
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- via
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- CSS-like
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- styles,
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- it
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- did
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- not
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- include
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- support
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- for
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- "named
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- styles"
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- (aka
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- "style
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- classes").
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- Pivot
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- 2.0
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- adds
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- this
...
- capability,
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- including
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- support
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- for
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- both
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- typed
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- and
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- untyped
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- style
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- selectors.
...
...
- Add
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- platform
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- support
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- for
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- SVG
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- images
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Pivot
...
- 1.5
...
- and
...
- earlier
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- included
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- a
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- set
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- of
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- classes
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- for
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- declaratively
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- constructing
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- drawings
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- using
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- a
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- "shape
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- DOM"
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- or
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- "scene
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- graph",
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- which
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- mirrored
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- the
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- equivalent
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- drawing
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- primitives
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- in
...
- the
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java.awt.geom
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package
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- .
...
- While
...
- these
...
- classes
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- provided
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- a
...
- convenient
...
- way
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- to
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- implement
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- retained
...
- mode
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- drawing,
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- they
...
- were
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- of
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- little
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- practical
...
- use,
...
- since
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- such
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- drawings
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- had
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- to
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- be
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- constructed
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- by
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- hand
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- -
...
- no
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- support
...
- was
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- provided
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- for
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- reading
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- standard
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- image
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- formats
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- such
...
- as
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- SVG
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- or
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- Adobe
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- Illustrator
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- documents.
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In
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- Pivot
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- 2.0,
...
- the
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- "shape
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- DOM"
...
- classes
...
- have
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- been
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- eliminated
...
- and
...
- replaced
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- with
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- a
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- new
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- SVG-based
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Drawing
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- class.
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- This
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- allows
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- developers
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- to
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- freely
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- interchange
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- bitmap-based
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- images
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- (such
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- as
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- JPEG,
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- PNG,
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- or
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- GIF)
...
- and
...
- scalable
...
- vector
...
- images
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- in
...
- a
...
- Pivot
...
- application.
...
- SVG
...
- support
...
- in
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- Pivot
...
- 2.0
...
- is
...
- provided
...
- by
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- the
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...
...
- project.
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- Re-implement
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- TextArea
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The
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TextArea
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- component
...
- was
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- completely
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- overhauled
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- in
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- Pivot
...
- 2.0.
...
- It
...
- now
...
- supports
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- common
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- text
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- editing
...
- features
...
- including
...
- word
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- navigation
...
- and
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- undo/redo,
...
- and
...
- cut/paste
...
- behavior
...
- has
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- been
...
- improved.
...
- Word
...
- navigation
...
- and
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- undo/redo
...
- has
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- also
...
- been
...
- added
...
- to
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TextInput
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- (PIVOT-372
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- and
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- PIVOT-639).
...
...
- Add
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- rich
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- text
...
- support
...
- to
...
- TextPane
...
- (formerly
...
- TextArea)
...
The
...
- previous
...
TextArea
...
- component
...
- has
...
- been
...
- renamed
...
- to
...
TextPane
...
- and
...
- has
...
- recieved
...
- improvements
...
- that
...
- allow
...
- it
...
- to
...
- be
...
- used
...
- to
...
- present
...
- and
...
- author
...
- rich
...
- text.
...
- It
...
- can
...
- also
...
- now
...
- host
...
- sub-components
...
- and
...
- can
...
- be
...
- used
...
- as
...
- a
...
- generic
...
- text-based
...
- layout
...
- container.
...
- However,
...
- it
...
- has
...
- not
...
- been
...
- fully
...
- tested
...
- and
...
- is
...
- considered
...
- experimental
...
- in
...
- Pivot
...
- 2.0.
...
...
- Add
...
- a
...
- "repeatable"
...
- property
...
- to
...
- ListButton
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A
...
- "repeatable"
...
- flag
...
- has
...
- been
...
- added
...
- to
...
ListButton
...
- to
...
- support
...
- "split
...
- button"-type
...
- behavior.
...
- When
...
- enabled,
...
- a
...
- mouse
...
- click
...
- on
...
- the
...
- trigger
...
- area
...
- of
...
- the
...
- button
...
- will
...
- show
...
- the
...
- drop
...
- down,
...
- but
...
- a
...
- click
...
- on
...
- the
...
- content
...
- area
...
- will
...
- not
...
- and
...
- will
...
- instead
...
- simply
...
- "press"
...
- the
...
- button.
...
...
- Simplify
...
- editor
...
- APIs
...
The
...
- editor
...
- APIs
...
- for
...
ListView
...
- ,
...
TableView
...
- ,
...
- and
...
TreeView
...
- were
...
- significantly
...
- simplified
...
- for
...
- Pivot
...
- 2.0
...
- ,
...
- making
...
- it
...
- much
...
- easier
...
- to
...
- implement
...
- custom
...
- editors
...
- in
...
- a
...
- Pivot
...
- application.
...
...
- Make
...
- ListView
...
- selectedItem,
...
- etc.
...
- notifying
...
- properties
...
In
...
- previous
...
- versions,
...
- changes
...
- to
...
ListView
...
- 's
...
- "selectedItem"
...
- property,
...
TableView
...
- 's
...
- "selectedRow"
...
- property,
...
- and
...
TreeView
...
- 's
...
- "selectedNode"
...
- property
...
- did
...
- not
...
- fire
...
- events.
...
- This
...
- was
...
- by
...
- design,
...
- since
...
- the
...
- getters
...
- for
...
- these
...
- properties
...
- are
...
- simply
...
- convenience
...
- methods.
...
- However,
...
- the
...
- lack
...
- of
...
- event
...
- notification
...
- made
...
- it
...
- impossible
...
- to
...
- use
...
- the
...
- new
...
- dynamic
...
- data
...
- binding
...
- feature
...
- to
...
- bind
...
- to
...
- these
...
- properties.
...
- As
...
- a
...
- result,
...
- events
...
- are
...
- now
...
- fired
...
- when
...
- these
...
- values
...
- change.
...
...
- Fire
...
- selection
...
- change
...
- events
...
- when
...
- selection
...
- changes
...
- indirectly
...
In
...
- previous
...
- versions,
...
- selection
...
- change
...
- events
...
- in
...
- data-driven
...
- components
...
- such
...
- as
...
ListView
...
- were
...
- not
...
- fired
...
- when
...
- a
...
- component's
...
- selection
...
- state
...
- changed
...
- indirectly
...
- (i.e.
...
- as
...
- a
...
- result
...
- of
...
- a
...
- model
...
- change,
...
- rather
...
- than
...
- a
...
- direct
...
- call
...
- to
...
- a
...
- selection
...
- setter
...
- method).
...
- It
...
- was
...
- the
...
- caller's
...
- responsibility
...
- to
...
- listen
...
- for
...
- both
...
- model
...
- and
...
- selection
...
- change
...
- events.
...
In
...
- Pivot
...
- 2.0,
...
- selection
...
- change
...
- events
...
- are
...
- fired
...
- both
...
- when
...
- the
...
- selection
...
- changes
...
- directly
...
- as
...
- well
...
- as
...
- when
...
- it
...
- is
...
- changed
...
- indirectly.
...
...
- Add
...
- a
...
- "closeable"
...
- property
...
- to
...
- TabPane
...
The
...
TabPane
...
- component
...
- now
...
- supports
...
- user-closeable
...
- tabs.
...
...
- Fire
...
- tooltipTriggered()
...
- event
...
- from
...
- Component
...
In
...
- prior
...
- Pivot
...
- versions,
...
- it
...
- was
...
- difficult
...
- to
...
- create
...
- tooltips
...
- containing
...
- custom
...
- content.
...
- The
...
Component
...
- class
...
- now
...
- fires
...
- a
...
tooltipTriggered()
...
- event
...
- that
...
- applications
...
- can
...
- hook
...
- into
...
- to
...
- show
...
- a
...
- custom
...
- tooltip.
...
- The
...
- tooltip
...
- delay
...
- is
...
- now
...
- also
...
- configurable
...
- (PIVOT-563).
...
...
- Multiple
...
- host
...
- windows
...
Though
...
- Pivot
...
- provides
...
- a
...
- rich
...
- set
...
- of
...
- window
...
- types,
...
- they
...
- are
...
- all
...
- internal
...
- to
...
- the
...
- host
...
- frame
...
- (or
...
- applet).
...
- A
...
- common
...
- request
...
- from
...
- developers
...
- was
...
- for
...
- improved
...
- support
...
- for
...
- multiple
...
- native
...
- frames.
...
- Such
...
- support
...
- has
...
- been
...
- added
...
- to
...
- Pivot
...
- 2.0:
...
- applications
...
- launched
...
- via
...
DesktopApplicationContext
...
- can
...
- now
...
- easily
...
- create
...
- multiple
...
- top-level
...
- host
...
- frames,
...
- providing
...
- a
...
- much
...
- more
...
- seamless
...
- desktop
...
- experience.
...
...
- Provide
...
- additional
...
- Color
...
- schemes
...
Though
...
- Pivot
...
- has
...
- always
...
- provided
...
- the
...
- ability
...
- to
...
- create
...
- custom
...
- color
...
- schemes,
...
- previous
...
- versions
...
- have
...
- included
...
- only
...
- a
...
- single
...
- default
...
- scheme.
...
- Pivot
...
- 2.0
...
- includes
...
- a
...
- collection
...
- of
...
- color
...
- schemes
...
- which
...
- are
...
- optimized
...
- for
...
- a
...
- variety
...
- of
...
- popular
...
- desktop
...
- environments.
...
...
- Create
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- an
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- Eclipse
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- launcher
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- for
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- org.apache.pivot.wtk.Application
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- and
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- ScriptApplication
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Pivot
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- now
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- includes
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- an
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- Eclipse
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- plugin
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- to
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- help
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- simplify
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- the
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- task
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- of
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- creating
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- launch
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- configurations
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- for
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- Pivot
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- applications.
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- When
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- the
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- plugin
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- is
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- installed,
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- any
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- class
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- that
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- implements
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- the
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- Application
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- interface
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- can
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- be
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- automatically
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- launched
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- via
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- a
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- right-click
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- context
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- menu.
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- Additionally,
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- any
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- BXML
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- file
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- that
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- has
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- a
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- root
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- element
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- that
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- is
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- a
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- subclass
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- of
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- Window
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- can
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- also
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- be
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- launched
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- via
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- right-click
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- using
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- the
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- ScriptApplication
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- launcher
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- class
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- included
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- in
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- the
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- platform.
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Complete release notes are available here.