Category Archives: e(fx)clipse
Compensator – A code editor and a code dev environment written in JavaFX
If you’ve followed the release of e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 and my latest blogs on this, you might have noticed that we have spent quite some time on components like a styled text editor, a filesystem viewer and other basic stuff one … Continue reading
How to create an editor with syntax highlighting for Java
I see many people at stackoverflow who ask for an editor who does syntax highlighting in their JavaFX applications. As e(fx)clipse runtime has such a control available and the Eclipse Text Framework has all the tokenizing and reconcoling infrastructure I … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.2.0 released
Before going into the weekend and work on my EclipseCon stuff I’m happy to announce the 1.2.0 release of e(fx)clipse tooling and runtime. Tooling e(fx)clipse adds JavaFX tooling to your Eclipse IDE and provides: FXML editor including a live preview … Continue reading
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
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
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