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]
Fixed hard-to-read documentation tool-tips in Blueprints (UE-8467)
- Changed SCS tool-tips to use the new simplified dark-text-on-white-background styling
- Made "Hold Ctlr+Alt" easier to read on a white background
[CL 2425847 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
EngineMinimal.h no longer includes SlateCore.h or SlateBasics.h
- This nearly halves the time it takes to recompile small game projects! (~14s -> ~8s)
- This shrinks the PCH size for EngineMinimal by 161 MB on Windows (420 MB -> 259 MB, Development Editor Win64)
- Note that Engine.h and EnginePrivate.h still include SlateCore.h and SlateBasics.h (not a clear detriment)
- IMPORTANT: We need to verify all example games that use this still compile, and add release notes for user games that forgot to include Slate directly
- This is all part of UE-7203
#codereview james.golding,nick.atamas
[CL 2419751 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
New look and feel for Slate tool-tips
- Tool-tips are now black on white so they stand out from the rest of the editor
- Increased tool-tip font size by one point; increased the amount of padding
- Only regular text-only tool-tips and documentation tool-tips are affected. We may update the various customized tool-tips later on.
[CL 2419520 by Ben Marsh in Main branch]
SCS Editor now shows a root actor that you can select and see properties.
Draging and dropping components to the graph from SCS editor creates Getters.
Add components drop down has more common entries and better naming for some.
[CL 2419383 by Ben Marsh 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]
Added asset, code, tutorial and UDN hyperlinks. Tweaked UI to use combo box instead of the large amount of radio buttons it was using before.
Made sure importer & content use correct text styles.
Defaulted to rich text for content.
[CL 2284444 by Thomas Sarkanen 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]
This solves a wrapping issue where STextBlock would incorrectly consume new-line characters when wrapping, as well as allowing it to use custom wrapping behavior (eg, CamelCase wrapping for asset names in the content browser).
This change also implements FString -> FText passthrough for SLATE_TEXT_ATTRIBUTE (it was previously performing FText -> FString passthrough, however this didn't fit well with the fact that FText has a more efficient method of comparing whether a bound text attribute has changed (see FTextSnapshot), so can quickly work out that the FTextLayout doesn't need updating).
This change adds FTextBlockLayout to handle the text layout cache for text block types (STextBlock and SRichTextBlock) and serves a dual purpose of moving the duplicated caching logic into a single place, as well as hiding it from the widget (so allowing the cache to mutate, even when called from immutable widget functions).
This change also increases the unification between the STextBlock and SRichTextBlock construction parameters, by allowing STextBlock to specify a Justification, Margin, and LineHeightPercentage, and allowing SRichTextBlock to specify its HighlightText as an attribute.
ReviewedBy Nick.Atamas, Justin.Sargent
[CL 2280351 by Jamie Dale 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]
