Category Archives: 3.x

Flexible calendar control in SWT

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Tom Schindl

I’ve been in need for Week-Calendar view to display appointments but could not find anyone that completely fit my needs to I implemented a custom one. This short screen cast shows what I’ve today. The control is backed by a … Continue reading →

Posted in 3.x | 7 Comments

JFace Viewers in a Java8 world – Part 1 ListViewer

Posted on July 24, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Most people who write RCP applications today know about JFace Viewers and in my opinion the Viewer framework is one of the best programming patterns that came out of Eclipse – easy to understand, easy to apply but still powerful. … Continue reading →

Posted in e(fx)clipse, Eclipse, Enhanced RCP | 2 Comments

JFace-Viewer and Eclipse Databinding with > 10.000 Objects

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Inspired by a bugzilla-discussion where virtual support for the nebula grid. I thought I blog a bit about Eclipse Databinding when it comes to big datasets. The standard way used looks like this: Executing this code with the following item … Continue reading →

Posted in Enhanced RCP | 6 Comments

Teneo, OSGi and Javaassist for proxy loading

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Yesterday I’ve debugged to get javaassist working with teneo which gave us headaches in the past so we simply turned it off which isn’t really a problem to us but I simply wanted to know why it didn’t worked. As … Continue reading →

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How to apply the e4 programming model to 3.x

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Tom Schindl

So while I could only encourage everyone to use the Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform (EAP) to write UI-applications, this post is for those who have existing 3.x code which they want to refactor step by step to run on EAP. … Continue reading →

Posted in 3.x, e4, Enhanced RCP | 8 Comments

Enhanced RCP: Reuse of WritableList in JFace-Viewers

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Just because I’ve been running into this today. I thought it might be interesting to others as well. The following is a shortened version of a code I’ve been using in an RCP-Application. Does someone spot the error? I guess … Continue reading →

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Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate – The e4 way

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Some weeks ago I published how views can communicate using the EventAdmin-Service. To get things working in an 3.x application one has to write some glue code but more importantly one has to know about all those nifty things about … Continue reading →

Posted in Enhanced RCP, tutorials, Uncategorized | 13 Comments

Enhanced RCP: Usage of TitleAreDialogSupport

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Eclipse Databinding comes with many utility classes and one of them is TitleAreaDialogSupport which can be used to show validation errors when running in an TitleAreaDialog. But the default implementation has some missing features: Once a validation error is shown … Continue reading →

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Improvement Properties-Editor

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I’ve lately worked a lot with property files and what always bothered me was that there was no Outline-View shown for it like it is e.g. for the Java-Files. Typically properties-File e.g. for translations are structured in a hierarchical way … Continue reading →

Posted in 3.x | 13 Comments

Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I’ve often seen the question in the eclipse newsgroups when it comes to view communication. People often face the problem that their views have to communicate with each other informing about state changes (selection changes are published best through ISelectionService). … Continue reading →

Posted in Enhanced RCP | 32 Comments