Author Archives: Tom Schindl
Useing Qt to write Equinox-OSGi-UI-Applications
I saw I didn’t blogged since about 2 months. So I thought I’ll start a series of blog entries showing off new things and paths I’m exploring. I’ll start with a Technical Topic because it’s a really exciting thing I … Continue reading
Give your E4-Application a modern Look&Feel
EclipseCon is coming in about 3 weeks and I started preparing the stuff for my talks about E4 and UFaceKit. In E4 we are trying to address some of the main pain points RCP-Application developers faced – Their application looks … Continue reading
News on UFaceKit
IP-Review passed This is a great day in the short life of UFaceKit. We passed the initial IP-Review for our code base and I thank all the IP-Team for the great assistance and help to make our code base IP-clean. … Continue reading
Getting started with UFaceKit and QT
QT and UFaceKit So the big news this week in opensource space was the announcement of Nokia to release their C++ cross-platform widget toolkit under LGPL. This is great and people now once more start to request a SWT-Port for … Continue reading
Pimp your application L&F with UFaceKit
Does your application look like this or hopefully a bit better than this really ugly example?Making applications look nice and still not cluttering your code with these theming informations is something not provided out of the box by Eclipse. Still … Continue reading
Where do you go (JFace)Viewers
The presence Today I thought about a problem of JFace-Viewers when it comes to clever memory management like it is provided for example by CDO. CDO has a very clever memory management concept where objects are swapped out of the … Continue reading
Back from ESE
I’m back in reality and just recap what happened the last 4 days. My talks Let me first recap my talks. I think all in all they went quite well though there are always things to improve (it was my … Continue reading
Rotating Image in a PaintListener
For those who have a better understanding of matrices and 2-D graphics this may sound strange but today I struggeled about 2 hours rotating an image in a PaintListener. Let me first of explain the exercise I had to solve, … Continue reading
News about UFacekit
There are some important news I’d like to share with all of you: 1. UFacekit Proposal The proposal is out and we hope some of you are interested in the targets and ideas we follow with UFacekit. If you are … Continue reading
There’s no place where Eclipse-Databinding doesn’t work
Tonight I thought I’ll give Android a spin, I download the sources and worked through some samples. After an hour this got boring and because I already managed to get Eclipse-Databinding working in other Environments (GWT, Swing, QT) I thought … Continue reading
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