After some time not having developed for Win32. I today had to brand a small RCP-application and once more completely forgot how to create this “Programm Launcher icon” using opensource tools. So I thought I have to restore this information somewhere I can find it later on: 1. Get nice icons:The starting point for me [...]
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Archive | June, 2007
Why do developers need Code-Snippets
June 22, 2007
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Many of you may already have noticed that we started a Snippet collection for JFace-Elements like the one you know from SWT. Yesterday I updated the wiki-page to show all snippets with a short description. Are Snippets only something we provide because we love our users soooo much? To me the answer is no. There [...]
Read moreI’m perFLEXed
June 12, 2007
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Yesterday Adobe released it’s Flex 3 and naturally I went there to see this new cool technology. I downloaded it and got an Eclipse with a GUI-Builder to create SWF-Applications. The nice thing is that Flex uses an XML-Format to store the GUI, … . I guess you know what’s coming now, don’t you? I [...]
Read moreSplash-Screen and Threads
June 12, 2007
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Today I thought it would make my application look much more professional if the login-dialog is part of the splash-screen. The new extension point added in eclipse makes this possible and even provided an template implementation I could use without problem. The process is straight forward: Create a Product Configuration (or use your existing one) [...]
Read moreThings are evolving
June 9, 2007
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It’s been now a few months I started reworking my the first draft implementation which already provided many interesting things but there was still Java-Code needed to bind-POJOs and to interact with the Datasource. What’s new: XBL (XmlBindingLanguage) to connect your model with the help of the databinding framework to SWT-Widgets Switched to work on [...]
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