Category Archives: 3.x

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 →

Have you often asked yourself which items are visibile in Table/Tree. Maybe you need these informations to dispose system-resources (e.g. if you have different images in every row you can easily run out of system resources). What to do? There’s … Continue reading →

Some of you may have noticed JFace provides new API to streamline JFace usage and to support new features like: custom owner draw tooltips for tree/table-cells keyboard editing support for viewers To provide all those new features we (Tod Creasey, … Continue reading →

How often have you wished that OS-Tooltips would provide more functionalities like MultiLine-Text, Background-Color, Embedded Images, … . The time you faced those problems is over since today where JFace ToolTips are available to the public. Usage is fairly straight … Continue reading →

As promised I have released my JFace backport from 3.3 just a view days after 3.2 came out. You can get the ready plugin from my companies SVN-Repository.

Today I sit down and thought it is time to provide features JFace won’t provide (some of them are marked as later or are refused) in an own project named at.bestsolution.jface. Well 2 features I already had around somewhere in … Continue reading →

Back from holiday I see JFace’s new viewer API evolving from week to week and getting more stable and userfriendly but some parts are not as smooth as they should be some work has to spent. The most markable things … Continue reading →

There are many many exciting features added in 3.3 cycle to jface but many people need a solution now and not in 3.3-Timeframe. I myself have a need for some of those feature so I started back-porting them which is … Continue reading →

Banging my head against Viewers since about a month we finally reached a state where it’s possible the first time to use viewers with different widget than org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table. At the moment only TableViewer supports widget independency but once this is … Continue reading →