Category Archives: Eclipse

e4 – More News from ModelTooling

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Some weeks ago I’ve blogged about some new features I’ve added to the e4-ModelTooling. The soon declared 4.1M6 release will hold some more features I’d like to present to you in this blog entry. Control Finder If you are interested … Continue reading →

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e4 – Use Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform but not SWT

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Tom Schindl

So the title already says what this Blog-Post is about. It will talk about the possibility to use the Eclipse 4.1 Application Platform without using SWT to develop your UI-Components. Already the initial designs of Eclipse 4.x splitted the codebase … Continue reading →

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e4 – News from ModelTooling

Posted on February 20, 2011 by Tom Schindl

It’s been a very long time since I’ve blogged about my work on the e4 model tooling front but this does not mean nothing happened. I think I have some interesting news to share on features I’ve implemented: Edit/View XMI-File … Continue reading →

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Enhanced RCP: Reuse of WritableList in JFace-Viewers

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Just because I’ve been running into this today. I thought it might be interesting to others as well. The following is a shortened version of a code I’ve been using in an RCP-Application. Does someone spot the error? I guess … Continue reading →

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Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate – The e4 way

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Some weeks ago I published how views can communicate using the EventAdmin-Service. To get things working in an 3.x application one has to write some glue code but more importantly one has to know about all those nifty things about … Continue reading →

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Enhanced RCP: Usage of TitleAreDialogSupport

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Tom Schindl

Eclipse Databinding comes with many utility classes and one of them is TitleAreaDialogSupport which can be used to show validation errors when running in an TitleAreaDialog. But the default implementation has some missing features: Once a validation error is shown … Continue reading →

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Improvement Properties-Editor

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I’ve lately worked a lot with property files and what always bothered me was that there was no Outline-View shown for it like it is e.g. for the Java-Files. Typically properties-File e.g. for translations are structured in a hierarchical way … Continue reading →

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Enhanced RCP: How views can communicate

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Tom Schindl

I’ve often seen the question in the eclipse newsgroups when it comes to view communication. People often face the problem that their views have to communicate with each other informing about state changes (selection changes are published best through ISelectionService). … Continue reading →

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Slides from my latest Talks

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Tom Schindl

I’ve been given some talks about Eclipse 4.0/4.1 lately. For those interested here are the slides: ESE 2010 – “The way to Eclipse 4.0 and 4.1” together with Boris Bokowski ESE 2010 – “Adopt the e4 progamming model in Eclipse … Continue reading →

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Navigating/Querying EMF-Models using XPath

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Tom Schindl

To make the new e4 way of building a complete model from small model pieces – named fragments – more flexible in 4.1, I’ve been developing a JXPath extension which works ontop of the reflective EMF-API. I know that there’s … Continue reading →

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