Category Archives: Eclipse

Restarting an e4 application with the intial workbench.e4xmi

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Tom Schindl

e4 applications by default remember the state when getting shutdown and restore that state on the next restart. This is the behavior most people expect from an application but there are situations people would like to reset the application into … Continue reading →

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SWTonFX – JavaFX Canvas with many clipping calls == unacceptable slow

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Inspired by a twitter discussion started by Andres Almiray if NatTable could be run in JavaFX application I checked out the sources, added some missing API to SWTonFX GC implementation and voila it renders a NatTable sample as the SWT … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse – All-in-one updated to Luna RC1

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Tom Schindl

I’ve just updated our nightly all-in-one builds to Luna RC1, while you get some platform fixes the most important change for JavaFX devs is that all the JavaDoc holes are now closed and you should see JavaDoc on any property-method … Continue reading →

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maven-tycho 0.20.0 and java8 source code

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Tom Schindl

People writing e4/OSGi JavaFX application these days will most likely do it using JavaFX8 and probably they then make use of Java8 language features as well. While the latest milestones of Eclipse 4.4 Luna have Java8 support with it your … Continue reading →

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e4 on JavaFX – Drag and Drop between Stacks (=JavaFX TabPanes)

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Developers switching from e4 on SWT over to e4 on JavaFX have been missing the feature to reorder the tabs inside their window. One of the main targets of 1.0.0 is to close the gap between the SWT and JavaFX … Continue reading →

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Reuse your e4 SWT-Part implementation in e4 on JavaFX

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Have you ever considered to switch from SWT to JavaFX but had abandoned it because it would require you to rewrite all your SWT UI code or you want to stick with SWT because you want to publish your e4 … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse – All-In-One downloads upgraded to Luna M7 – Why care?

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Tom Schindl

I’ve just updated the All-In-One downloads to Luna M7 and there are multiple reasons you should care: General improvements and bugfixes JDT Java8 improvements JDT understand JavaFX-Properties-JavaDoc For those of you writing JavaFX applications and wondered why no JavaDoc was … Continue reading →

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SWT on JavaFX update-site available

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Just for those who want to give SWT on JavaFX a try themselves you can now grab the nightly bits from http://download.eclipse.org/efxclipse/experimental-nightly/site_assembly.zip. To develop a plain SWT/JavaFX app (no OSGi!) you should add the following jars: org.eclipse.fx.runtime.swt_1.0.0.$buildtimestamp.jar: this is the … Continue reading →

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RAP CSS Tooling

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Tom Schindl

While I was working on sample for “Eclipse4 on RAP” I had to use RAP CSS to get a mobile like behavior. The CSS/Themeing support in RAP is quite powerful but one has to have a web-page opened to see … Continue reading →

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e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 – All-in-one downloads updated to Kepler SR2

Posted on March 28, 2014 by Tom Schindl

Just a very short notice that I’ve updated our All-In-One downloads from e(fx)clipse 0.9.0 are updated to Kepler SR2 + JDT Java8 feature patch. If you grab the SDK from http://efxclipse.bestsolution.at/install.html you will get: Eclipse 4.3.2 SDK JDT-Feature-Patch for Java8 … Continue reading →

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