Author Archives: Tom Schindl
Update on UFacekit
UFacekit has a new source structure We have restructured the repository to clearly separate our modules into: proper: This holds stable and actively maintained modules – currently Swing and SWT implementations. Checking them out and compiling works always else it’s … Continue reading
Disable parts SWT-Table/Tree with SWT.CHECK
This is a hack, a hack, a hack posting. I have read many many entries on the newsgroups asking a question like this: How can I disable certain check boxes in an SWT-Tree/Table. Is this possible? The standard answer to … Continue reading
JFace-Viewers for Swing, is this possible?
You might think “Now he’s gone completely crazy” but hold on and read through the next few paragrpahs to hopefully find out that I’m not. 0. The background Do you sometimes have to code against Swing and have also been … Continue reading
UFacekit – Proposed as a Component under Platform/Incubator
So the news is out [Mailinglist, Newsgroups]. UFacekit is proposed as a Component under Platform/Incubator project (proposal). I think this is the right move for UFacekit to gather momentum towards our first release. If you want to support this move: … Continue reading
Exploring new technologies part of Ganymede-Release Train
I took myself some time the last days exploring new technologies available with Ganymede 3.4: Eclipse-Databinding and its new features EMF-Databinding (Provisional but working very smoothly) Teneo: Persist your model via hibernate in a SQL-Database CDO: Share your model between … Continue reading
Writing a CTreeCombo-Widget
I was working on my example RCP/EMF/Databinding application I’m going to use to present various parts of those technologies to my co-workers and getting familiar with new technologies like CDO, Teneo, Spring and others when I hit the problem that … Continue reading
Ganymede – What’s in JFace and Databinding
The History JFace-Viewers/ToolTips In 3.3 the whole Viewer-Infrastructur has been reworked to make it easier to add new features in upcoming releases. Some new features where part of 3.3 (e.g. LabelProvider/Column, CellNavigation, Customizable-Editor). Additionally JFace opened up its viewers for … Continue reading
E4 is more about bringing it to the web
Since the E4-Presentation at EclipseCon and the SWT-Talk most people think that E4 is only about bringing Eclipse to the web. THAT’S NOT TRUE. E4 is much more and that SWT gets a web-port is only a small part. Here’s … Continue reading
A radical approach to explore new paths for e4
After EclipseCon 2008 and the E4 noise I started to rewrite the prototype shown there to use an EMF-Model (I’m going to refer to this prototype in the rest of this posting as PROTOTYPE_1). It was quite cool to get … Continue reading
Eclipse E4 and UFacekit
E4 and my impression Haveing attended the E4 Talk, A Future of SWT and the E4 BOF. I’m looking forward for a lot of innovation and discussion about new architectures at various levels of the Eclipse-Platform. The most important thing … Continue reading
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