Category Archives: Eclipse

Using LESS in JavaFX

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Tom Schindl

Inspired by a posting to openjfx-dev where I claimed: Using LESS in JavaFX applications is possible – I thought I should proof my statement and get LESS working in a JavaFX app. The LESS-File i’ve created for looks like this: … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse builds on hudson.eclipse.org

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Tom Schindl

The transition of our sources from our github-repository to the Eclipse.org server has been finished almost since a long time and we’ve been working on our codebase since then already. The last missing bit was to migrate our maven-tycho build … Continue reading →

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Using Eclipse for development on OpenJFX8 and Java8 in general

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Tom Schindl

If you are following the OpenJFX development you might already know that they switched their build to JDK8 and also started using Java8 language features in their codebase (defender methods, lambdas) – see the announcement. The direct result of this … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse e4 renderers go astray (rendering Swing)

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Tom Schindl

I gave some talks at EclipseCon about our e4 renderers for JavaFX and showed of how the our renderers are built and different to those you find in the SWT implementation coming with Eclipse. On the left you see how … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse and JavaFX at EclipseCon

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Tom Schindl

EclipseCon NA 2013 is not far away anymore (only one week to go) – if you happen to be there and you are interested in e(fx)clipse or JavaFX in general I’ve assembled a list of talks to attend I know … Continue reading →

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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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