Tycho Advanced by Dirk Fauth
Reading the current literature regarding Eclipse 4 and Maven Tycho, I realized that some aspects on dependency management are not described. IMHO these aspects are important and with this post I will...
View ArticleTesting plain SWT with SWTBot by Dirk Fauth
SWTBot is a testing tool for testing Eclipse and SWT based applications. If you search for SWTBot you will find some tutorials and a documentation showing how to test an Eclipse application or product....
View ArticleHelp searched for NatTable evolution by Dirk Fauth
Currently we are working a lot on the NatTable core to make it a more robust and flexible framework. This comes with some major refactorings that enhance existing interfaces or change workflows. The...
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Cross/weak validation in NatTable by Dirk Fauth
Sometimes it is necessary to implement logic that validates one value against another in the same object. Having a fromDate and a toDate in your model object, where the toDate can’t be before the...
View ArticleWant to try out NatTable 1.0.0? by Dirk Fauth
First of all: No NatTable 1.0.0 is not yet released! But EclipseCon starts today. Unfortunately there is no NatTable talk at EclipseCon, but we also want to participate in some kind of way. So we...
View ArticleEclipse Internationalization Part 1/4 – Current Situation by Dirk Fauth
If you are developing Eclipse applications and plugins for users around the world, you should prepare them to be translated into several languages. While in other frameworks this process is quite...
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Eclipse Internationalization Part 2/4 – New Message Extension by Dirk Fauth...
In my last blog post I explained the current available solutions for translating an Eclipse 4 application and what is wrong with them. In this blog post I will show you a new solution for translating...
View ArticleNatTable 1.0.0 released
Finally the long awaited Nebula NatTable 1.0.0 release is out. It took us longer than we initially planned, but as it is a the increase of the major version number indicates, there are plenty of...
View ArticleNatTable 1.0.0 released
Finally the long awaited Nebula NatTable 1.0.0 release is out. It took us longer than we initially planned, but as it is a the increase of the major version number indicates, there are plenty of...
View ArticleEclipse Internationalization Part 3/4 – Migration by Dirk Fauth
In my last blog post I explained the new message extension added to the E4 tools by Tom Schindl and me. It is similar to the Eclipse localization mechanism based on OSGi NLS, but gets rid of the...
View ArticleLeap Motion in Eclipse 4
The Leap Motion device is out! Great news for all who waited for it. For me as an Eclipse 4 enthusiast and a technology lover it was obvious to bring both worlds together. Controlling an Eclipse 4...
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Eclipse Internationalization Part 4/4 – New Features by Dirk Fauth
Finally I found the time to write the last part of my blog post series about Eclipse internationalization with the new message extension created by Tom Schindl and me. The series started with showing...
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New message extension update
I’m very happy and of course proud to see that the new message extension created by Tom Schindl and me is part of the Eclipse platform with Eclipse Luna M3. If you followed my blog post series about...
View ArticleEclipse Luna M6 – Localization Update
With Eclipse Luna M6 there are some interesting news about localization. Locale changes at runtime The application model is now able to react on Locale changes at runtime. In combination with the...
View ArticleNatTable Getting Started Tutorial published
I’m proud to announce that we published the Nebula NatTable – Getting Started Tutorial at vogella.com. It covers basic information on the background, installing and the architecture of NatTable, and...
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NatTable with custom scrollbars
When talking about styling a SWT control via CSS, one issue is raised quite early. The scrollbars can not be styled! Looking at a dark theme, the importance on that issue becomes obvious, as you can...
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NatTable context menus with Eclipse menus
In this blog post I will explain how to add context menus to a NatTable instance and how it is possible to combine menus configured via Eclipse Application Model with NatTable menus. It is based on the...
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POM-less Tycho builds for structured environments
With Tycho 0.24 POM-less Tycho builds where introduced. That approach uses convention-over-configuration to reduce the number of redundant information for setting up a Tycho build. In short, that means...
View ArticleOSGi – bundles / fragments / dependencies
In the last weeks I needed to look at several issues regarding OSGi dependencies in different products. A lot of these issues were IMHO related to wrong usage of OSGi bundle fragments. As I needed to...
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Run an Eclipse 32-bit application from a 64-bit Eclipse IDE
Typically the development environment should not be dependent on the target environment the application should run on. For creating an Eclipse RCP application using SWT, this is not as trivial as it...
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