Monthly Archives: May 2014

London calling

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Short notice to people reading my blog – just arrived at Heathrow and heading to the city. I’m here for the Bloomberg Eclipse Hackathon on Saturday – it’s not too late to join!

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SWTonFX – JavaFX Canvas with many clipping calls == unacceptable slow

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Inspired by a twitter discussion started by Andres Almiray if NatTable could be run in JavaFX application I checked out the sources, added some missing API to SWTonFX GC implementation and voila it renders a NatTable sample as the SWT … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse – All-in-one updated to Luna RC1

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Tom Schindl

I’ve just updated our nightly all-in-one builds to Luna RC1, while you get some platform fixes the most important change for JavaFX devs is that all the JavaDoc holes are now closed and you should see JavaDoc on any property-method … Continue reading →

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maven-tycho 0.20.0 and java8 source code

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Tom Schindl

People writing e4/OSGi JavaFX application these days will most likely do it using JavaFX8 and probably they then make use of Java8 language features as well. While the latest milestones of Eclipse 4.4 Luna have Java8 support with it your … Continue reading →

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e4 on JavaFX – Drag and Drop between Stacks (=JavaFX TabPanes)

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Developers switching from e4 on SWT over to e4 on JavaFX have been missing the feature to reorder the tabs inside their window. One of the main targets of 1.0.0 is to close the gap between the SWT and JavaFX … Continue reading →

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Reuse your e4 SWT-Part implementation in e4 on JavaFX

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Have you ever considered to switch from SWT to JavaFX but had abandoned it because it would require you to rewrite all your SWT UI code or you want to stick with SWT because you want to publish your e4 … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse – All-In-One downloads upgraded to Luna M7 – Why care?

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Tom Schindl

I’ve just updated the All-In-One downloads to Luna M7 and there are multiple reasons you should care: General improvements and bugfixes JDT Java8 improvements JDT understand JavaFX-Properties-JavaDoc For those of you writing JavaFX applications and wondered why no JavaDoc was … Continue reading →

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