Author Archives: Tom Schindl

JavaFX + xtend a perfect match

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Tom Schindl

So after having used xtend for a while as a pure templating language I thought it’s time to explore how it can be used when programming JavaFX. JavaFX 2.x API is already designed to be used for lambda expression support … Continue reading →

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Slides from EclipseCon talks

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Tom Schindl

My talks are done. If you happen to come to here for the slides. Here they are: The Eclipse 4 Application Platform explained – PDF e(fx)clipse – Eclipse Tooling and Runtime for JavaFX – PDF

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my bags are packed i’m ready to go

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Tom Schindl

… I’m leaving in about an hour to Washington DC for EclipseCon. I’m going to give 3 presentations (on e4 and JavaFX): Tuesday:The Eclipse 4 Application Platform explained – This talk will explain the Eclipse 4 Application Platform which can … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse 0.0.13 released

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Tom Schindl

Just right before EclipseCon 2012 I’ve released e(fx)clipse 0.0.13. On the feature side the main focus was on runtime, on the tooling I fixed some bugs which hopefully improves your coding experience (especially with fxml-Files). All in one downloads To … Continue reading →

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JavaFX 2 and OSGi-Deployment models

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Tom Schindl

It looks like a lot of people are interested in using JavaFX into one of their Eclipse Views. I infer that from the people visiting my blog from a stackoverflow question. The problem people face is that in Eclipse JavaFX … Continue reading →

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Having fun with SVG and JavaFX 2.0

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Tom Schindl

Thanks to Jasper Potts – e(fx)clipse has a first logo. Jasper was nice enough to provide me an SVG-Version of it and so I was able to use my SVG-To-FXML-Converter to make some fun stuff with the logo he provided. … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse product logo – any designers around?

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Tom Schindl

e(fx)clipse will be shown at EclipseCon 2012 Hot New Product Showcase reception. The problem is that I’m not a designer and don’t yet have a logo. So I’m hoping designers are around who could help me getting a logo for … Continue reading →

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phone like scrollable listview with JavaFX

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Tom Schindl

I guess all users of smartphones (Android, iPhone, …) know the scrollable lists you have there. While working on the example application for EclipseCon North America I thought it might make my example application look cooler if I could have … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse 0.0.12 released

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Tom Schindl

A little bit later than scheduled here’s the next release. This time the number of new features is smaller than in previous releases but there still some small nice additions. Let’s look into it. Update to latest upstream modules The … Continue reading →

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SVG for FXML-Conversion

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Tom Schindl

So some weeks ago I read Jasper Potts blog on FXG to FXML-Conversion tool (useing simple XSL-Stylesheet). This blog Jasper asked if there’s probably one day someone providing a conversion tool for SVG. This has been on my list for … Continue reading →

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