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]
The display name, filter string, and tooltips for the property editor (and associated detail customizations) are now stored as FText rather than FString. This allows us to remove SLATE_TEXT_ARGUMENT from the detail customization widgets.
[CL 2372595 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]
The AppFramework module is intended to be used for compound widgets and UI related classes that are too specific (not basic enough) for Slate, but also not Editor specific (reusable in non-Editor applications and games). The test suite has been moved in its entirety for now, but core widget specific test classes will eventually be split off and moved back into Slate, so that they can live alongside of their corresponding widgets.
Other changes:
- moved to "include what you use" scheme for SColorPicker
- broke out color picker related widgets that may be reusable
- added forward declarations to reduce header include dependencies
#CodeReview: saul.abreu
[CL 2275496 by Max Preussner in Main branch]
Refactored some of the UI code for ULevelStreaming to use PostEditChangeProperty so it's more reuseable.
#codereview matt.kuhlenschmidt,dmitriy.dyomin
[CL 2222165 by Chris Gagnon in Main branch]
We now scan for an AllowPreserveRatio metadata flag on properties, if it exists we show the preserve ratio button just like we do for scale. Currently this is only enabled for the LightFunctionScale property on light components.
[CL 2040803 by Nick Darnell in Main branch]
