#lockdown Nick.Penwarden
#rb none
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MAJOR FEATURES + CHANGES
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Change 3209340 on 2016/11/23 by Ben.Marsh
Convert UE4 codebase to an "include what you use" model - where every header just includes the dependencies it needs, rather than every source file including large monolithic headers like Engine.h and UnrealEd.h.
Measured full rebuild times around 2x faster using XGE on Windows, and improvements of 25% or more for incremental builds and full rebuilds on most other platforms.
* Every header now includes everything it needs to compile.
* There's a CoreMinimal.h header that gets you a set of ubiquitous types from Core (eg. FString, FName, TArray, FVector, etc...). Most headers now include this first.
* There's a CoreTypes.h header that sets up primitive UE4 types and build macros (int32, PLATFORM_WIN64, etc...). All headers in Core include this first, as does CoreMinimal.h.
* Every .cpp file includes its matching .h file first.
* This helps validate that each header is including everything it needs to compile.
* No engine code includes a monolithic header such as Engine.h or UnrealEd.h any more.
* You will get a warning if you try to include one of these from the engine. They still exist for compatibility with game projects and do not produce warnings when included there.
* There have only been minor changes to our internal games down to accommodate these changes. The intent is for this to be as seamless as possible.
* No engine code explicitly includes a precompiled header any more.
* We still use PCHs, but they're force-included on the compiler command line by UnrealBuildTool instead. This lets us tune what they contain without breaking any existing include dependencies.
* PCHs are generated by a tool to get a statistical amount of coverage for the source files using it, and I've seeded the new shared PCHs to contain any header included by > 15% of source files.
Tool used to generate this transform is at Engine\Source\Programs\IncludeTool.
[CL 3209342 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
Newly installed versions of the engine will now attempt to copy the project-agnostic config settings from a previous engine installation. This happens by way of a versioned manifest that copies old versions when the manifest does not exist, or is a different version. This code path is benign for non-installed versions of the engine (or FPaths::ShouldSaveToUserDir() is false).
EditorGameAgnosticSettings and EditorUserSettings ini paths have been renamed to EditorSettings and EditorPerProjectUserSettings respectively to better convey their purpose. In general, most settings should be saved in EditorSettings (project-agnostic) so that they apply regardless of which project is open. We have some way to go migrating existing settings for this to be the case, however.
Some previously per-project configuration files are now project-agnostic (such as Editor.ini, EditorKeyBindings.ini, and EditorLayout.ini)
GEditor->Access...Settings and GEditor->Get...Settings have been removed in favor of direct access of the CDO through GetMutableDefault<> and GetDefault<> respectively. Global config ini filenames that are not set up are now neither loaded nor saved on build machines, to handle the problem of indeterminate state more generically.
This addresses UETOOL-270 (Most editor preferences should be project-agnostic)
[CL 2517558 by Andrew Rodham in Main branch]
UETOOL-213 - Minimize Slate FString -> FText conversion (remove SLATE_TEXT_ATTRIBUTE)
This fixes any editor/engine specific code that was passing text to Slate as FString rather than FText.
[CL 2401019 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
UETOOL-213 - Minimize Slate FString -> FText conversion (remove SLATE_TEXT_ATTRIBUTE)
This fixes any editor/engine specific code that was passing text to Slate as FString rather than FText.
[CL 2399803 by Jamie Dale in Main branch]
* Moved Slate.h into SlateBasics.h and began shifting less commonly used headers into SlateExtras.h.
* Slate.h now simply includes SlateBasics.h and SlateExtras.h.
* Slate.h includes a deprecated warning now to indicate that SlateBasics.h + specific includes should be used instead.
* Moved dozens of inlined functions using Slate widgets into .cpp files to avoid header dependencies.
* All code samples now include SlateBasics.h and SlateExtras.h so future shifts will not break most those projects, but not trigger the deprecation warning of including Slate.h.
#BUN
[CL 2329610 by Wes Hunt in Main branch]
Removed ability to independently set font size & colour etc. and replaced with a set of font styles we can use (and style appropriately). Added legacy code to deal with old-style text as best it can.
[CL 2282800 by Thomas Sarkanen in Main branch]
Tutorials can now be created using the right-click asset menu->Misc->Tutorial Blueprint.
Importer allows you to pick a UDN file, which will then be converted into a new Tutorial Asset.
Adapted UDN parser to also output rich text format for the purposes of this importer. This may be deprecated at some point soon, once existing tutorials have been imported.
Rich text editor added to tutorial details customization. Features; font, color, size & hyperlinks for now.
Rich text display also added to content widgets.
Added option to optionally show the widget highlight if only the bubble widget is required.
#codereview Bruce.Nesbit
[CL 2256027 by Thomas Sarkanen in Main branch]
#TTP 312311 - ROCKET: TASK: Add a "Documentation Node"
#Branch UE4
#Proj BlueprintGraph, EdGraph, Kismet, KismetCompiler, GraphEditor, Documentation, EditorStyle
#Change Updated UEdGraphSchema to include an interface call to retrieve an FEdGraphSchemaAction to create documentation nodes. At this point only the K2 interfaces implement this.
#Change Updated UEdGraphSchema_K2 to include a call to retrieve an FEdGraphSchemaAction to create documentation nodes. This is used to add the actions to the blueprint palette and context menus.
#Add Added FEdGraphSchemaAction_K2AddDocumentation in EdGraphSchema_K2_Actions.h/cpp to implement the calls in UEdGraphSchema to create documenation nodes from palette and context menus.
#Change Modified FK2ActionMenuBuilder to provide a static call to create a documentation action in the same style as the comment. Additionally added calls to FK2ActionMenuBuilder::GetPaletteActions and FK2ActionMenuBuilder::GetContextAllowedNodeTypes to call this to add entries in the palette and context menus.
#Add Added a new Brush GraphEditor.Documentation_16x, for the context menu icon in SlateEditorStyle.cpp.
#Change Modified GetPaletteItemIcon in SBlueprintPalette.cpp to return the new icon for the DocumentationNode
#Change Modified FKismetCompilerContext::IsNodePure to include the Documentaton node in the drop through ensure test to prevent asserts on compling if a documentation node is present.
#Change Added an entry for Documentation node in FNodeFactory::CreateNodeWidget.
#Change Modified IDocumentationPage interface to provide the ability to provide a TextWrapAt Attribute so this can be set before creating excerpt content if desired.
#Change Modified the UDNParser to control text wrap at values in the created widgets using a float Attribute WrapAt, Added a set call in the DocumentationPage and made the default behaviour mimic the code it replaced.
#Add Added the class UEdGraphNode_Documentation implemented in EdGraphNode_Documentation.h and UEdGraph.cpp, this is the UObject implementation for the documentation nodes.
#Add Added the class SGraphNodeDocumentation as the GraphPanel implementation of the EdGraphNode_Documentation.
#Change Moved the resizable code from SGraphNodeComment into a SGraphNodeResizable and changed SGraphNodeComment and SGraphNodeDocumentation inherit from it to avoid duplicating code.
#Change Added a documentation specific details customisation so the excerpts can be displayed as combo button.
#Change Added FBlueprintDocumentationDetails into BlueprintDetailsCustomization.h/cpp to handle the user interaction with the documentation node in the BP Editor.
ReviewedBy Chris.Wood, Mike.Beach
[CL 2247425 by Ben Cosh in Main branch]
