Release 0.6.9 (1.21.20.23)

[m-brisch]

Read the previous release notes here

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Summary

Hello and happy preview day 🥳! We are now on 0.6.9 (1.21.20.23), as of Wednesday, July 17th, 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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Property Pane API Updates

This week we have changes to how the PropertyPane API works for addVector3, addBool, addText, addButton, and addImage 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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Block Hotbar Updates

One quick update for the block hotbar! If you're a new user, we'll now start you off with a palette of default blocks to help you jump straight into creating. If you've used the Editor before, we'll remember what blocks you had set in your hotbar and automatically load them up the next time you launch Editor.

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Change Log

• Updated block hotbar to have non-air defaults
• Added persistence for the default hotbar
• Added "ExtensionContext.settings.theme" which will represent the In-World UI Theme
  • This feature currently has three functions: resolveColorKey(string): Color, setCurrentTheme(string): void, and getThemeList(): string[]
  • There is a single "minecraft:default" theme
  • Future work will add the ability to create, modify, and delete custom themes but the default themes will not be modifiable
• Updated subset of PropertyPane API to use IObservable pattern.
  • Added an alternative Property Pane addVector3API that leverages type safe IObservable Observables can be created using makeObservable API
    • Added interfaces IVector3PropertyItemand IVector3PropertyItemOptions for the new property item
    • Renamed function to create property bag Vector3 to addVector3_deprecated
  • Added an alternative Property Pane addBoolAPI that leverages type safe IObservableProp value API
    • Added interfaces IBoolPropertyItemand IBoolPropertyItemOptions for the new property item
    • Renamed function to create property bag bool item to addBool_deprecated
  • Converted Property Pane addText API to use IObservableProp
  • Added interfaces IButtonPropertyItemand IButtonPropertyItemOptions for the button property item
    • IPropertyPane addButtonAPI can now take a plain function
    • Removed ButtonVarianttype, and added ButtonPropertyItemVariant enum API
  • Renamed EDITOR_PANE_PROPERTY_ITEM_TYPEenum API to PropertyItemType
  • Converted property pane addImageAPI to support IObservable. It will also be possible to use custom image formats like icon and block with ImageResourceData as value
    • Added onClickfunction and alignment property to IImagePropertyItemOptions API

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