If you are following the OpenJFX development you might already know that they switched their build to JDK8 and also started using Java8 language features in their codebase (defender methods, lambdas) – see the announcement. The direct result of this change is that I’d have to switch to Netbeans or IntelliJIDEA to work with the […]
Read moree(fx)clipse e4 renderers go astray (rendering Swing)
I gave some talks at EclipseCon about our e4 renderers for JavaFX and showed of how the our renderers are built and different to those you find in the SWT implementation coming with Eclipse. On the left you see how the SWT one works and on the right handside how the JavaFX one is structured. […]
Read moree(fx)clipse and JavaFX at EclipseCon
EclipseCon NA 2013 is not far away anymore (only one week to go) – if you happen to be there and you are interested in e(fx)clipse or JavaFX in general I’ve assembled a list of talks to attend I know JavaFX is part of: Monday, March 25th 1pm – 4pm: Tutorial: Advanced Eclipse 4 Application […]
Read moree(fx)clipse 0.8.1 released
We are happy to announce that e(fx)clipse 0.8.1 is available. This is most likely the last release we’ll provide outside from Eclipse.org. Let’s go straight to the New & Noteworth. All in one downloads Updated to the latest and greatest up-stream projects (Eclipse 4.2.2/3.8.2, WTP 3.4.2, egit 2.3.1). The WTP-Update holds fixes for the FXML-Editor […]
Read moreBuild an intelligent code editor with JavaFX and JDT
If you followed my blog in the last weeks you know that I’ve been working on a StyledText-Control which allows one to build a source-code editor with syntax highlighting, … . With basic syntax highlighting you can already achieve a good results because you can highlight things like keywords, String-Literals, … . Still if you […]
Read moreFrom StyledTextViewer to a StyledTextEditor with JavaFX8
The title already says what this is about the internal code is a bit ugly and I’m using some brute force stuff to simply get it going, naturally there are missing features like selection, … . Next is to port more stuff from Eclipse-Text-Infrastructure and integrate with JDT once more. The sourcecode is found at […]
Read moreSpeeding up TextFlow for JavaFX8 (by a factor of ~100)
So at the end of last week I blogged about my experiments to get a styled text viewer for (java) source using the new TextFlow-Support in JavaFX8, I did a short screencast and there you noticed that for larger source files the rendering speed was not acceptable anymore. I’ve worked a bit on it last […]
Read moreExperimenting with TextFlow from JavaFX8
I’ve spend tonight doing some experiments with combining the org.eclipse.text-Support and JavaFXs new TextFlow which allows to one to render complex texts. The result of this 3 hours is astonishing! I have a working SourceViewer (please note it is ONLY a viewer without editing support!). Here are some screenshots: I’ve recorded a small video so […]
Read moreThoughts on JavaFX for Android and iOS
So the big news is out: Oracle will provide the sources of their Android and iOS prototypes. While I agree this is great the announcement leaves me with many questions and doubts. What Richard is telling us is that they release their (prototype?) code for iOS/Android, not more not less. This means the community has […]
Read moreA smarter JavaFX CSS-Editor
This is just a short teaser for those using e(fx)clipse for their JavaFX development. Todays nightly build holds an extermly cool new feature. JavaFX provides many many CSS-Attributes (many more than HTML) but only very view apply for a given CSS-selector. Because of that we made the CSS-Editor context aware which means it restricts the […]
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May 15, 2013 

