Author Archives: Tom Schindl
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 – Helper API to call methods who throw exceptions
Have you ever worked with a library who throws an exceptions but there’s not possible recovery for you and you simply want to move on with a default value or null? I’ve had the “fun” to work with something like … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 – publishing runtime as an R5 bundle repository
In other posts I already outlined that our effort beside creating new features is to make the e(fx)clipse runtime a better citizen of the OSGi community / ecosystem. Starting with 1.2.0 we are not only providing a p2 repository – … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 – StyledTextArea improvements
A lot of time has been spent on StyledTextArea and so it has improved a lot. Many many bugs have been fixed one of the most interesting features from an API point of view is most likely support for custom … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 – New service to observe a filesystem path
With 1.2.0 the e(fx)clipse core runtime bundle comes with a service who is able to track filesystem modifications. Since Java7 there’s an API to observe filesystem paths and so has the Eclipse Core Resources System which is used inside your … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 – RRobot learned to generate declarative services
In my last blog post I described that the way you define themes has changed – pre 1.2.0 you used extension points, now with 1.2.0 you are supposed to use OSGi-Services (preferably through the use of declarative services). I guess … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 – Themes are OSGi services
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 is trying to get a better OSGi citizen and so we try to remove more and more Equinox/Eclipse specific stuff which means that we want to get rid of the Extension Registry in our/your code. In 1.1.0 themes … Continue reading
EMap – Map your EMF to an SQL-Database
There are various technologies available for mapping EMF-objects to SQL databases, like the probably most established ones in the Eclipse ecosystem (both developed by Martin Taal) Teneo Texo We more than contentendly used these two in quite some projects until … Continue reading
Introducing XGrid – a toolkit agnostic Grid control and component
Today I am happy being able to talk for the first time about a new component we’ve been developing for quite some time. Before going into technical details, I’d like to point out that the development of features currently available … Continue reading
JavaFX Filesystem Viewers
JavaFX 8 has 2 controls (=dialogs) to browse the filesystem javafx.stage.DirectoryChooser javafx.stage.FileChooser who create native resource dialogs but if you want to integrate a directory view in your application and/or you want custom features like a file preview those dialogs … Continue reading
Displaying and editing large (styled) texts
A reoccuring question in stackoverflow is how to present: Large amounts of editable text Display text paragraphs with words in different colors, sizes, … and optionally make them editable In the following post I’d like to shade some light into … Continue reading
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