Category Archives: Eclipse
Introducing XGrid – a toolkit agnostic Grid control and component
Today I am happy being able to talk for the first time about a new component we’ve been developing for quite some time. Before going into technical details, I’d like to point out that the development of features currently available … Continue reading
JavaFX Filesystem Viewers
JavaFX 8 has 2 controls (=dialogs) to browse the filesystem javafx.stage.DirectoryChooser javafx.stage.FileChooser who create native resource dialogs but if you want to integrate a directory view in your application and/or you want custom features like a file preview those dialogs … Continue reading
Displaying and editing large (styled) texts
A reoccuring question in stackoverflow is how to present: Large amounts of editable text Display text paragraphs with words in different colors, sizes, … and optionally make them editable In the following post I’d like to shade some light into … Continue reading
Eclipse DI and OSGi-Services and dynamics
Most people who use Eclipse DI know that they can simply use and the system will inject the service as desired but there are multiple problems with that: What happens if the there’s a newer higher ranked service registered? What … Continue reading
TextEditor Framework with e4 and JavaFX (including jdt and nashorn)
Tonight I had some time to hack on a research project which uses the StyledTextControl provided by e(fx)clipse. Syntax highlighting for the basic languages like Java, JavaScript, XML and groovy has already been implemented since a long time. So next … Continue reading
Flexible calendar control in SWT
I’ve been in need for Week-Calendar view to display appointments but could not find anyone that completely fit my needs to I implemented a custom one. This short screen cast shows what I’ve today. The control is backed by a … Continue reading
Animated path morphing in JavaFX
Inspired by a new feature available on Android Lollipop named AnimatedVectorDrawable I found in this blog post and the availability of the Twitter Emoji I tried to recreate the same using JavaFX. The result can be seen in this short … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.1.0 released
I’m happy to announce the general availability of e(fx)clipse 1.1.0! The release I’ve blogged in the last few days up the new features you’ll get with 1.1 Improved internationalization support Improved internationalization support – tooling API to restart your e4 … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.1 – New features – Generate controller from FXML
Although we have a very feature rich FXML-Editor with a live preview many users are using SceneBuilder to define their UIs. In case you have an FXML you want the possibility to generate a controller who references: elements marked with … Continue reading
e(fx)clipse 1.1 – New features – Easier runtime consumption through special features
The more people are adopting our core OSGi-Support inside the IDE (e.g. STS, GEF4, …) the more important it is that they depend on the same basic feature so that you can install and update them side by side. Easier … Continue reading
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