If you’re following e4 developer list discussions
you know that there are some new tools and frameworks to design UI in
eclipse. These are great news for all...
0 replies - 1547 views - 11/05/09 by ekke in Articles
Every Eclipse plugin developer has to deal with Shell and Window,
but sometimes doesn't understand the difference between these two. In
this tip, I'm trying to...
0 replies - 1014 views - 09/16/09 by Prakash in Articles
Well the results of the survey are in, and the clear favorite is the existing name: Eclipse RCP.
While the original purpose of the survey was to create a...
0 replies - 669 views - 09/10/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
In my last post I discussed how to best manage run configurations for Eclipse RCP applications. But there was one related topic I wanted to discuss in more...
0 replies - 716 views - 09/09/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
One of the many things that Eclipse RCP provides is a set of
standard menu options that are used by the Eclipse IDE itself. These
include standard menu options...
0 replies - 1180 views - 08/18/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
Among developers, the decision of what user interface technology to use is always a biased one. I, as an Eclipse enthusiast, will almost always go for an...
16 replies - 4815 views - 08/14/09 by James Sugrue in Articles
There aren’t many books available about the Eclipse Rich Client
Platform. One reason for this, I think, is that it’s a difficult
subject to cover...
2 replies - 933 views - 08/14/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
As a rule of thumb, your application should try to remember the state
across sessions. So when a user hits the close button and then opens it
after few...
0 replies - 1227 views - 08/07/09 by Prakash in Articles
It’s been two months since my post requesting that we rename Eclipse RCP,
and I thought it was time to provide a progress update. The response
has been...
0 replies - 1199 views - 07/23/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
This week we release our Eclipse RCP Refcard, helping you to get started writing applications and plug-ins based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform. Here we...
0 replies - 2793 views - 07/20/09 by Nitin Bharti in Articles
Most applications require configuration settings. Applications are
often deployed in multiple environments (dev, test, prod, etc) and
these environments often...
0 replies - 1007 views - 07/14/09 by patrickpaulin in Articles
Keyboard shortcuts is usually much speedier than reaching out your
mouse, moving it, pointing it to something and clicking. But there are
some things which...
1 replies - 877 views - 06/26/09 by Prakash in Articles
Recently I contributed my e4 contacts demo to the e4 (e4 = Eclipse
4) cvs repository. Goal of the demo is to give good examples for e4 RCP
related topics,...
0 replies - 1551 views - 05/26/09 by Kai Tödter in Articles
Attention all Mac owners! We need your help to test the now-complete Cocoa port of SWT.
The SWT team has been working hard on the SWT Cocoa port and...
4 replies - 2619 views - 05/20/09 by Wayne Beaton in Articles
As a developer who depends on the Eclipse platform daily, there are a number of projects that I couldn't do without in the Eclipse eco-system. I'm not talking...
4 replies - 5865 views - 05/15/09 by James Sugrue in Articles