Category Archives: Eclipse
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
This somehow looks familiar – Kepler SR1 on SWTonFX
I know it looks completely crashed but well this is what you get when running Kepler on BestSolution.at SWT port which delegates to JavaFX. So there’s still a long long long way to go but to me this screenshot marks … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse runtime recipes
This is just a short notice to all user of e(fx)clipse runtime bundles. e(fx)clipse runtime provides many cool features most people don’t know about yet (e.g. our DI support for FXML-Controllers, the adapter system, …). So I started collecting them … Continue reading
Introducing SWT on FX
In my last few presentations I’ve introduced what I named “SonF” which is short for SWT on FX. What is it? SWT on FX is an SWT implementation which instead of using the native widget it use JavaFX controls under … Continue reading
What IEclipseContext#declareModifiable is good for
There was a comment on IEclipseContext less code Rene asked how the publishing into parent contexts is done. IEclipseContext provides 2 ways to publish information: IEclipseContext#set IEclipseContext#modify I think 99% of the people are using IEclipseContext#set because they could make … Continue reading
Writing IEclipseContext-less code
The problem The IEclipseContext is the center of the the e4 DI system. One can think of it as observable hierarchical key-value map. One of the major idea of e4 was that people should write code which does not depend … Continue reading
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