Author Archives: Tom Schindl
CSS Attribute Description and Validation (for JavaFX)
As part of e(fx)clipse we are implementing a custom CSS-Editor based upon Xtext. We have a grammer of CSS-Specification so that we can parse CSS-Files, the interesting part though e.g. which properties are available, what values they can have is … Continue reading
SVG To FXML Converter as Commandline util
There’ve been some requests from people to use the SVG to FXML converter outside my e(fx)clipse project. I’m happy to announce that the latest nightly builds provide a standalone version of the converter. Useage is quite simple: will produce an … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse – demo camp video
I almost forgot that a video was recorded at this years Vienna DemoCamp. (The talk is/was in german!) You can find my video at http://vimeo.com/47109493 if you read this through a aggregator.
JavaFX 2.2 and OSGi
Inspired by a recent thread on e(fx)clipse user forum “Why some things don’t work out-of-the-box when using JavaFX instead of SWT”. I think its time to take a look at the current state of JavaFX 2.2 on OSGi. The first … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 0.1.0 released
I’m happy to announce release 0.1.0 of e(fx)clipse. This release fixes a lot of bugs discovered and adds new cool features. Minimum JavaFX version Like announced with the previous release 0.1.0 drops support for JavaFX 2.0. You need to have … Continue reading
Eclipse 4 L&F on Linux
I’ve read some reports from people who don’t like the new L&F. I don’t want to discuss this what I’d like to present you is how you can get the old L&F almost back. The default answer you’ll get is … Continue reading
Interview on fxexperience.com
For those not following http://fxexperience.com/. I’ve been interviewed by Jonathan Giles on my work on e(fx)clipse and my view on JavaFX 2 in general.
Create your own Eclipse distro made easy
To foster adoption of your tool it might make sense to provide all-in-one downloads. This makes sense if your product has dependencies on many different 3rd party plugins (and you e.g. need very specific versions) or you want to make … Continue reading
So you used internal API
Inspired by a question that was asked twiced on the newsgroup about internal “API” that is missing in Eclipse 4.x although the feature is still there when interacting with the IDE The API in question was: … I needed an … Continue reading
Xtend, JavaFX-Properties and operator overloading
JavaFX has properties you can bind to each other to keep them insync. Watch this video for a very minimal example which scales a text by dragging a slider. Now let’s look at the Xtend code used to write this … Continue reading
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