Author Archives: Tom Schindl
Why do developers need Code-Snippets
Many of you may already have noticed that we started a Snippet collection for JFace-Elements like the one you know from SWT. Yesterday I updated the wiki-page to show all snippets with a short description. Are Snippets only something we … Continue reading
I’m perFLEXed
Yesterday Adobe released it’s Flex 3 and naturally I went there to see this new cool technology. I downloaded it and got an Eclipse with a GUI-Builder to create SWF-Applications. The nice thing is that Flex uses an XML-Format to … Continue reading
Splash-Screen and Threads
Today I thought it would make my application look much more professional if the login-dialog is part of the splash-screen. The new extension point added in eclipse makes this possible and even provided an template implementation I could use without … Continue reading
Things are evolving
It’s been now a few months I started reworking my the first draft implementation which already provided many interesting things but there was still Java-Code needed to bind-POJOs and to interact with the Datasource. What’s new: XBL (XmlBindingLanguage) to connect … Continue reading
New JFace API is in place
After ~8 months of work we checked in the new JFace-API with many exciting features in to CVS just a few hours ago. To see how powerful this new API is take a look at the this snippet. Test it … Continue reading
XSWT, Databinding, … => DataForms
It’s sometime ago I started rewriting the current XSWT implementation from David Orme. Now I saw the Blog from Alex about Databinding and thought it’s time to let you all know that I’m working on a set of plugins which … Continue reading
EclipseCon community awards
I just read the post from Alex about the community awards and couldn’t believe finding my name under the ones finally winning the award. Thanks to everybody who voted for me. Now I’m even more disappointed that I couldn’t afford … Continue reading
My first commit
What a great day my first commit to the eclipse cvs-repository. It’s a small one patching JavaDoc for a not working API but it’s a start. Here’s the patch.
TableViewers and Nativelooking Checkboxes
Many of us have faced the same problem that if you needed to use checkboxes in your TableViewer/TreeViewer they look not native because they are pictures. I had some free minutes and thought that it’s time to create a LabelProvider … Continue reading
The new faces of JFace (part2)
The last time I showed you the new programming model we introduced to JFace to make it feel like programming SWT. But has this been the only reason that we decided to add this new API beside the existing one … Continue reading
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