Author Archives: Tom Schindl

Eclipse 4.0 – So you can theme me Part 1

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in e4, tutorials | 8 Comments

QxWT 1.2.0.0 released

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Tom Schindl

The qooxdoo-Team just released version 1.2 of their JavaScript-(UI)-Library and so I’ve updated the QxWT-Wrapper for GWT to 1.2.0.0 as well. There’s a new set of virtual-widgets in qooxdoo 1.2 but I decided to not wrap it yet because the … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcements, QxWT | 7 Comments

Eclipse 4.0 and tutorial on writing e4-RCP-application released

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in e4, tutorials | 71 Comments

Writing RCP Applications with e4

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Tom Schindl

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 … Continue reading →

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p2 I love you

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Last week I had the joy to add self-updating to one of our customers RCP-Application and well it turned out that this task only lasted for about 2 hours beside reading through the p2-Docs on the wiki and other online … Continue reading →

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e4 – Some more news from the modeltooling

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Tom Schindl

Fragment Tooling As you might see with the number of posts. I’ve been hacking a lot my ModelTooling-Editor and so after having talked about the latest features 3 days ago, I have some more news today. I’ve spend half of … Continue reading →

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e4 – News from the model tooling

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I’ve been busy working on my model editor and some wizards to create Java-Classes for our new programming model. New features in the model editor New Drag&Drop Support in the Left Tree: You can now drag around items in the … Continue reading →

Posted in e4 | 2 Comments

Workbench Model Tooling

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Tom Schindl

While traveling by train to Vienna and back I had time to invest some time into the workbench tooling and I think I added some nice and helpful things. “Live” Model Inspection: The first and most important feature is that … Continue reading →

Posted in e4 | 15 Comments

Vienna DemoCamp

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I managed to get to Vienna Helios DemoCamp which took places yesterday (June 25th 2010). There’ve been some very interesting presentations about different Eclipse Projects (EMFStore and EMFCP, Object Teams, redView, …). I gave a presentation at around 23:00 (it … Continue reading →

Posted in Talks & Conferences | 5 Comments

News from the Nebula

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I’ve planned to write up a blog post up new cool Nebula-Features since some time but failed because of time constraints (e4 has been my main focus). Any ways there’s not only cool stuff happening at e4. So this blog … Continue reading →

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