Category Archives: e(fx)clipse

e(fx)clipse 0.8.1 released

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Tom Schindl

We are happy to announce that e(fx)clipse 0.8.1 is available. This is most likely the last release we’ll provide outside from Eclipse.org. Let’s go straight to the New & Noteworth. All in one downloads Updated to the latest and greatest … Continue reading →

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Build an intelligent code editor with JavaFX and JDT

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Tom Schindl

If you followed my blog in the last weeks you know that I’ve been working on a StyledText-Control which allows one to build a source-code editor with syntax highlighting, … . With basic syntax highlighting you can already achieve a … Continue reading →

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From StyledTextViewer to a StyledTextEditor with JavaFX8

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Tom Schindl

The title already says what this is about the internal code is a bit ugly and I’m using some brute force stuff to simply get it going, naturally there are missing features like selection, … . Next is to port … Continue reading →

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Speeding up TextFlow for JavaFX8 (by a factor of ~100)

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Tom Schindl

So at the end of last week I blogged about my experiments to get a styled text viewer for (java) source using the new TextFlow-Support in JavaFX8, I did a short screencast and there you noticed that for larger source … Continue reading →

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Experimenting with TextFlow from JavaFX8

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Tom Schindl

I’ve spend tonight doing some experiments with combining the org.eclipse.text-Support and JavaFXs new TextFlow which allows to one to render complex texts. The result of this 3 hours is astonishing! I have a working SourceViewer (please note it is ONLY … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on JavaFX for Android and iOS

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Tom Schindl

So the big news is out: Oracle will provide the sources of their Android and iOS prototypes. While I agree this is great the announcement leaves me with many questions and doubts. What Richard is telling us is that they … Continue reading →

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A smarter JavaFX CSS-Editor

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Tom Schindl

This is just a short teaser for those using e(fx)clipse for their JavaFX development. Todays nightly build holds an extermly cool new feature. JavaFX provides many many CSS-Attributes (many more than HTML) but only very view apply for a given … Continue reading →

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Fed up with famfamfam icons for Eclipse.org – Let’s get Oxygen icons

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Tom Schindl

Whenever I work on Eclipse.org projects, only having access to the famfamfam Silk icon-sets makes me cry. Don’t get me wrong I’m happy that we have at least those icons available but wouldn’t it be better to have a really … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse proposed to Eclipse Foundation

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Tom Schindl

We’ve said since a long time that one day we’ll propose e(fx)clipse as an Eclipse Foundation project. Today we’ve published the project proposal at http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.efxclipse/ and Wayne created a bug for it. We believe this is the next important step … Continue reading →

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JavaFX in Eclipse Magazin 02/2013

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Tom Schindl

The Eclipse magazin has published an interview with me about JavaFX, Eclipse and e(fx)clipse. For those of you interested in JavaFX & Eclipse the next issue (2/2013) holds a lot of information on the topic: Intro: The history of JavaFX … Continue reading →

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