Author Archives: Tom Schindl
A week at e4 – Themeing in e4
Core Work-Items Themeing in e4 is done using CSS like Declarative Syntax. The latest nightly builds introduce an extension point which allows people to define and contribute CSS-Files to make up a theme from different css-Files. So now plugin-developers can … Continue reading
A week at e4 – Branch, Tweak, Break and Adjust
Today I thought it would nice to do a summary about the things happing at e4 I’m part of. The headline for this week could be: “Branch, Tweak, Break and Adjust – Lock the e4-Workbench-Model so that people won’t be … Continue reading
Eclipse Databinding 3.5.2 for GWT
I’ve just updated the Eclipse-Databinding port for GWT to the patch level of Eclipse 3.5.2.
e4 – Tooling WorkbenchModelEditor part of I-Builds
Starting with yesterdays I-Builds (starting with I20100317-1055) the first part of the upcoming tooling support for e4 is part of the e4-SDK. I this blog post I’ll discuss some of the features this first version is coming with and how … Continue reading
e4 – Workbench (Model) Tooling
I’ve started to work on some tooling to make e4 consumable for the average developer. The first thing I’m concentrating on is tooling for the workbench model. The key points are: Run in 3.x Run native in e4-Workbench (without the … Continue reading
It’s release time – QxWT 1.0.1.0 and GRaphael 1.3.1.0
QxWT 1.0.1.0 At the start of the year I promised to release Version 1.0.1.0 of QxWT at the end of Febuary and doing releases on time is one of the most important things so that people can start to trust … Continue reading
QxWT 1.0.1.0 – Realworld Demo
Tomorrow I’ll release QxWT 1.0.1.0 as I promised at the start of the year. To show people the power of QxWT and what can be achieved by using it, in conjunction with Eclipse-Tools like EMF and Teneo, I wrote an … Continue reading
e4 – Dependency and Service Lookup Tooling
Today I extended my current implementation a bit so that I now extract the currently injected fields in a class and display them in the dialog one can open from within the JavaEditor. The following videos present shows this in … Continue reading
e4 – Dependency Injection Tooling
In bug 302824 we started discussing how to make the use of DI easier and beside e.g. providing Helper-Classes the ideal thing would be to provide good tooling. Think about how hard OSGi-Development would be without PDE and I think … Continue reading
e4 – Extending an existing Product
After some months of not having contributed substential stuff to e4 and in anticipation of the EclipseCon tutorial “e4 – Anatomy of an e4-Application”. I worked yesterday on some demo stuff which we’ll probably use show the audience: The new … Continue reading
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