Author Archives: Tom Schindl
Enhanced RCP: Usage of TitleAreDialogSupport
Eclipse Databinding comes with many utility classes and one of them is TitleAreaDialogSupport which can be used to show validation errors when running in an TitleAreaDialog. But the default implementation has some missing features: Once a validation error is shown … Continue reading
Improvement Properties-Editor
I’ve lately worked a lot with property files and what always bothered me was that there was no Outline-View shown for it like it is e.g. for the Java-Files. Typically properties-File e.g. for translations are structured in a hierarchical way … Continue reading
Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate
I’ve often seen the question in the eclipse newsgroups when it comes to view communication. People often face the problem that their views have to communicate with each other informing about state changes (selection changes are published best through ISelectionService). … Continue reading
2010 in review
At the end of the year it’s always good to look back on what has happened the whole year and sometimes you get suprised because your current impression on things you did doesn’t really match with the one you really … Continue reading
Slides from my latest Talks
I’ve been given some talks about Eclipse 4.0/4.1 lately. For those interested here are the slides: ESE 2010 – “The way to Eclipse 4.0 and 4.1” together with Boris Bokowski ESE 2010 – “Adopt the e4 progamming model in Eclipse … Continue reading
UUID-Generator Plugin
Today it once more was the time where I had to generate Test-Data and for this purpose I had to create UUIDs. My first reaction was to write a small program which was generating some UUIDs i could use like … Continue reading
Navigating/Querying EMF-Models using XPath
To make the new e4 way of building a complete model from small model pieces – named fragments – more flexible in 4.1, I’ve been developing a JXPath extension which works ontop of the reflective EMF-API. I know that there’s … Continue reading
Article about e4 online
Back in March Boris Bokowski and myself wrote an article about the e4 workbench model. The article has now been published online (it is written in German but probably google-translate at least gives others an idea what we are talking … Continue reading
ESE 2010, e4 and my submissions
The submission deadline for ESE 2010 is over and there are many many submission. Let me first of all talk about my submissions: Adopt the e4 progamming model in Eclipse >= 3.6 This talk discusses how you can make single … Continue reading
I’m using Flattr.com
For many of you this might not be new but I’ve just found out about flattr.com which allows me to support blogs, software, … I find useful. In case you find my blog useful you’ll find the the flattr-button on … Continue reading
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