Release 0.6.10 (1.21.30.21)

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Read the previous release notes here

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Summary

Hello and happy preview day 🥳! We are now on 0.6.10 (1.21.30.21), as of Thursday, August 1st, 2024.

As a reminder of Editor API support:

• Editor Extensions overview article and API reference documentation on learn.microsoft.com
• Starter Kit: Contains the compiler tools and various libraries required to get started making Editor Extensions
• Samples created by our team to jump-start your own Extension creations

Additionally, if you're new to the Editor GitHub this week, we encourage you to join the Bedrock Add-Ons Discord #Editor channel!

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Client Widget System

We added a new set of client widgets to help make your Editor Extensions more expressive! We're super excited to see what you'll build with them. If you have ideas on more widgets you need for your extension, let us know either here or on discord!

2024-08-01.09-30-17.mp4

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Property Pane API Updates

This week we brought our new updates within the PropertyPane API for addComboBox, addNumber, addDropdown, addColorPicker, and addString which uses type safe IObservable. Our goal with these changes is to improve the usability and type safety when building panels inside of extensions. The rest of the PropertyPane APIs will be updated to our new Observable pattern in the coming releases and we'll be updating our Editor Samples to help get you started. We've maintained the previous API schema with add..._deprecated functions, but encourage everyone to upgrade to the new pattern.

If you have questions or feedback, let us know on the Bedrock Add-Ons Discord #Editor channel!

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Change Log

• Revamped Client Widget System
  • Refactored the Client Widget system to use components for base widget functionality
  • Added Editor Client Renderer Helper Service to aid with Editor in-world widget rendering
  • Changed Gizmo movement to be completely free moving and snap to grid on release
  • Added new widget components for Entities, Text, Gizmos, Height Guide, and basic Render Primitives
• Additional updates to the PropertyPane API
  • Removed IPropertyPane addBlockPicker and addEntityPicker methods in favor of addComboBox API that leverages type safe IObservableProp value
    • Added interfaces IComboBoxPropertyItem and IComboBoxPropertyItemOptions
    • Combo box supports different data types for additional validation with ComboBoxPropertyItemDataType. Entity and Block types work similarly to the old component, Custom type allows user defined list and it's the default
  • Added an alternative Property Pane addNumberAPI that leverages type safe IObservableProp value API
    • Added interfaces INumberPropertyItemand INumberPropertyItemOptions for the new property item
    • Renamed function to create property bag number item to addNumber_deprecated
  • Updated theme colors for input fields, and center aligned number input field values
  • Added an alternative Property Pane addDropdownAPI that leverages type safe IObservableProp value
    • Added interfaces IDropdownPropertyItem, IDropdownPropertyItemOptions and IDropdownPropertyItemEntry for the new property item. Each dropdown entry now supports imageData?: ImageResourceData property to render an image
    • Renamed function to create property bag number item to addDropdown_deprecated
  • Fixed theming and content alignment issues for the dropdown UI elements
  • Added an alternative Property Pane addColorPicker API that leverages type safe IObservableProp value API
    • Added interfaces IColorPickerPropertyItemand IColorPickerPropertyItemOptions for the new property item
    • Renamed function to create property bag color picker item to addColorPicker_deprecated
  • Added an alternative Property Pane addString API that leverages type safe IObservableProp value API
    • Added interfaces IStringPropertyItemand IStringPropertyItemOptions for the new property item
    • Renamed function to create property bag string item to addString_deprecated
• Fixed missing Summon Tool icon
• Added the following functions to "ExtensionContext.settings.theme": addNewTheme(name: string): void, deleteTheme(name: string): void, getCurrentTheme(): string, and updateThemeColor(name: string, key: ThemeSettingsColorKey, newColor: minecraftserver.RGBA): void. These functions will throw if "minecraft:default" or any other built-in theme is passed to them. updateThemeColor and deleteTheme will also throw if the theme does not exist
• Added block image support to block picker modal
• Fixed a bug where typing certain characters in the block or entity picker caused an error
• Added validation to prevent adding already existing block in a probability palette item

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