Monthly Archives: January 2013

Help searched for NatTable evolution by Dirk Fauth

Posted on January 30, 2013 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 last few days (or weeks) we worked … Continue reading →

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Eclipse 4 asynchronous processing and the event bus by Lars Vogel

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Lars Vogel

Synchronizing yourself with the user interface thread in Eclipse 4 can be done with the getting an instance of UISynchronize injected and use this class to execute an Runnable in the user interface thread. But Eclipse 4 provides an even … Continue reading →

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Testing plain SWT with SWTBot by Dirk Fauth

Posted on January 16, 2013 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. This is very easy. Following the … Continue reading →

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Eclipse 4 typical launch problems – by Lars Vogel

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Lars Vogel

I receive a lot of questions which relates to problem with launching the Eclipse 4 application. I also see the same questions again and again in the Eclipse 4 forum. Therefore I created the following list to help you to … Continue reading →

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Customizing the available tabs in the Search dialog in Eclipse

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Lars Vogel

Eclipse allows to search and provides different tabs for different search cases. In 99% of the cases I want to use the File search but in most cases I end in the Java or Plug-in search. Unfortunately Eclipse relates file … Continue reading →

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Tycho Advanced by Dirk Fauth

Posted on January 3, 2013 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 try to close some of those gaps. This … Continue reading →

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