Category Archives: Eclipse

Today I thought it would make my application look much more professional if the login-dialog is part of the splash-screen. The new extension point added in eclipse makes this possible and even provided an template implementation I could use without … Continue reading →

After ~8 months of work we checked in the new JFace-API with many exciting features in to CVS just a few hours ago. To see how powerful this new API is take a look at the this snippet. Test it … Continue reading →

Many of us have faced the same problem that if you needed to use checkboxes in your TableViewer/TreeViewer they look not native because they are pictures. I had some free minutes and thought that it’s time to create a LabelProvider … Continue reading →

The last time I showed you the new programming model we introduced to JFace to make it feel like programming SWT. But has this been the only reason that we decided to add this new API beside the existing one … Continue reading →

Have you often asked yourself which items are visibile in Table/Tree. Maybe you need these informations to dispose system-resources (e.g. if you have different images in every row you can easily run out of system resources). What to do? There’s … Continue reading →

Some of you may have noticed JFace provides new API to streamline JFace usage and to support new features like: custom owner draw tooltips for tree/table-cells keyboard editing support for viewers To provide all those new features we (Tod Creasey, … Continue reading →

How often have you wished that OS-Tooltips would provide more functionalities like MultiLine-Text, Background-Color, Embedded Images, … . The time you faced those problems is over since today where JFace ToolTips are available to the public. Usage is fairly straight … Continue reading →

As promised I have released my JFace backport from 3.3 just a view days after 3.2 came out. You can get the ready plugin from my companies SVN-Repository.