Category Archives: e(fx)clipse
e4 on JavaFX – Drag and Drop between Stacks (=JavaFX TabPanes)
Developers switching from e4 on SWT over to e4 on JavaFX have been missing the feature to reorder the tabs inside their window. One of the main targets of 1.0.0 is to close the gap between the SWT and JavaFX … Continue reading
Reuse your e4 SWT-Part implementation in e4 on JavaFX
Have you ever considered to switch from SWT to JavaFX but had abandoned it because it would require you to rewrite all your SWT UI code or you want to stick with SWT because you want to publish your e4 … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse – All-In-One downloads upgraded to Luna M7 – Why care?
I’ve just updated the All-In-One downloads to Luna M7 and there are multiple reasons you should care: General improvements and bugfixes JDT Java8 improvements JDT understand JavaFX-Properties-JavaDoc For those of you writing JavaFX applications and wondered why no JavaDoc was … Continue reading
SWT on JavaFX update-site available
Just for those who want to give SWT on JavaFX a try themselves you can now grab the nightly bits from http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/experimental-nightly/site_assembly.zip. To develop a plain SWT/JavaFX app (no OSGi!) you should add the following jars: org.eclipse.fx.runtime.swt_1.0.0.$buildtimestamp.jar: this is the … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 – All-in-one downloads updated to Kepler SR2
Just a very short notice that I’ve updated our All-In-One downloads from e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 are updated to Kepler SR2 + JDT Java8 feature patch. If you grab the SDK from http://efxclipse.bestsolution.at/install.html you will get: Eclipse 4.3.2 SDK JDT-Feature-Patch for Java8 … Continue reading
Eclipse on JavaFX (a short video) and next steps
Eclipse on SWT on JavaFX Video / Java8 Launch Panel on e(fx)clipse As I’ve been at EclipseCon last week and showed our work on JavaFX tooling and SWT on JavaFX I wanted to share the video I used in the … Continue reading
Eclipse on JavaFX – Get Dark – The power of JavaFX CSS
This is just a short post based on a question I received on twitter: Can one use JavaFX CSS to theme the IDE? Answer: Of course you can! I don’t know myself why people like the dark themes so much … Continue reading
SWT on JavaFX is now at part of e(fx)clipse
I’ve already outlined in one of my posts about SWT on FX that we are contributing our work on the port to Eclipse.org. We decided not to contribute it to the SWT project but work on it inside e(fx)clipse. There … Continue reading
Embedding Swing into SWT on Java8
If have have you ever faced the problem to embed Swing into your SWT application you know how nasty things get because you always have to synchronize between the SWT & Swing event loop. So if you have code like: … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 released
We are very pleased to announce the release of e(fx)clipse 0.9.0. This is the first release under the Eclipse.org umbrella and although it took us much longer than estimated we are now in good shape to explore future endenvours. Anyways … Continue reading
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