So there are many 3.x-RCP application and their developers who’d like to run their RCP-Apps ontop of the Eclipse 4.1 RCP (Attention: Don’t mix this up with the Eclipse 4 Application Platform – I’ve blogged about lately). The Eclipse 4.1 RCP allows you to run your RCP applications unmodified ontop of the Eclipse 4 Application [...]
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Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate – The e4 way
February 7, 2011
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Some weeks ago I published how views can communicate using the EventAdmin-Service. To get things working in an 3.x application one has to write some glue code but more importantly one has to know about all those nifty things about event publishing, getting access to OSGi-Services, … . One of the main topics of the [...]
Read moreEclipse 4.0 – So you can theme me Part 1
August 5, 2010
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One of the nice things of Eclipse 4.0 is that you can change its Look & Feel using CSS. In this blog post you’ll learn how you can write your own theme and use it in our workbench. The Eclipse 4.0 SDK comes along with 3 themes (on WinXP with 4 and Win7 with 5): [...]
Read moreEclipse 4.0 and tutorial on writing e4-RCP-application released
July 28, 2010
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The Release The e4-Team just announced the availability of the Eclipse 4.0 SDK “Early Adopter Release” (Reviewslides) which marks a major platform update since the inception of 3.0 6 years ago. Just to reiterate what the 4.0 SDK is and to set expectations right. The 4.0 SDK is marked as an “Early adopter release” targeted [...]
Read moreWriting RCP Applications with e4
July 26, 2010
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Now the 4.0 release is approaching very fast and I’ve been working full(free)time on an extended tutorial writing an e4-RCP-Applications. The whole tutorial is centered around an exemplary Mail-Application I’ll release the tutorial and the whole source on the day we release the 4.0 SDK so if all works out as we expect and you [...]
Read moreInstalling Eclipse Translate View
May 30, 2010
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I’ve just added an update-site to install Translation View into your Workbench. All you need to do is to add 2 update-sites: E4 M6 Update-Site: http://download.eclipse.org/e4/sdk/drops/S-4.0M6-201005231612/repository Translator Update-Site: http://svn.codespot.com/a/eclipselabs.org/eclipse-translator-view/trunk/releng/at.bestsolution.translate.updatesite/ After having successfully installed you should see a new category in your Eclipse Workbench: And if opened it will show up like this:
Read moree4 – Use e4-DI in 3.x
May 29, 2010
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When talking about single sourceing in terms of e4 we talk about the following: Write for e4 and run in e4-Applications, Eclipse 4.0 SDK and Eclipse 3.x SDK In the first part of the series we are going to get familiar with how we can use the e4-Programming model which is build upon DI in [...]
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