Author Archives: Tom Schindl
London calling
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!
SWTonFX – JavaFX Canvas with many clipping calls == unacceptable slow
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
e(fx)clipse – All-in-one updated to Luna RC1
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
maven-tycho 0.20.0 and java8 source code
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
e4 on JavaFX – Drag and Drop between Stacks (=JavaFX TabPanes)
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
Reuse your e4 SWT-Part implementation in e4 on JavaFX
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
e(fx)clipse – All-In-One downloads upgraded to Luna M7 – Why care?
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
SWT on JavaFX update-site available
Just for those who want to give SWT on JavaFX a try themselves you can now grab the nightly bits from http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/experimental-nightly/site_assembly.zip. To develop a plain SWT/JavaFX app (no OSGi!) you should add the following jars: org.eclipse.fx.runtime.swt_1.0.0.$buildtimestamp.jar: this is the … Continue reading
RAP CSS Tooling
While I was working on sample for “Eclipse4 on RAP” I had to use RAP CSS to get a mobile like behavior. The CSS/Themeing support in RAP is quite powerful but one has to have a web-page opened to see … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 – All-in-one downloads updated to Kepler SR2
Just a very short notice that I’ve updated our All-In-One downloads from e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 are updated to Kepler SR2 + JDT Java8 feature patch. If you grab the SDK from http://efxclipse.bestsolution.at/install.html you will get: Eclipse 4.3.2 SDK JDT-Feature-Patch for Java8 … Continue reading
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