vogella tutorial rss feed- Unit Testing with JUnit - Tutorial
- Android application and activity lifecycle - Tutorial
- Android application (performance and more) analysis tools - Tutorial
- Android Background Processing with Handlers and AsyncTask and Loaders - Tutorial
- Debugging Android applications - Tutorial
- Using the Android action bar (ActionBar) - Tutorial
- Register for the Eclipse 4 application life cycle - Tutorial
- Migrating Eclipse 3.x plug-ins and RCP applications to Eclipse 4 - Tutorial
- Android development tools installation - Tutorial
- Using FreeMarker templates (FTL)- Tutorial
Tag Archives: Eclipse
More and more contributions to the Eclipse platform project
If you look at the Git platform.ui repository log, we are getting more and more people involved in providing patches to the Eclipse platform project. I did not count them, but I think we got contributions from at least 10 … Continue reading
Eclipse org.eclipse.ui switches to png files and waves good bye to the floppy disk
Thanks to amazing contributon from Tony McCrary from http://www.l33tlabs.com/ we could replace the usage of .gif icons in org.eclipse.ui and org.eclipse.ui.workbench with png. The advantages of the png files is that they support transparency and therefore also look good on … Continue reading
The small details in life: the focus restore
This blog should show you a small, often overlooked, problem within Eclipse e4 and it should also provide you with a possible solution. The Problem Eclipse e4 has a lot of useful annotations and one of these is the @Focus. … Continue reading
Generics for the Combo-,List- and TableViewer
Currently the generic ComboViewer has been merged into the eclipse master branch and the changes for the List- and TableViewer are waiting for there reviews. In this blogpost I want to show you how to use this viewers with the … Continue reading
Working on the Eclipse 4 RCP book – Second edition
I’m currently working on the second edition of the Eclipse RCP book. The whole book has been completely reworked and everything is updated to Eclipse 4.3. The coverage will also be much more detailed and based on the feedback I … Continue reading
SWT: Detecting which key was pressed during a MouseClick by Lars Vogel
Sometimes you want to detect the metakey which was pressed during a mouse click on SWT widget. This information is available in the SelectionEvent via the stateMask property. The following code shows an example for this.
Finding SWT resources leaks with Sleak
In SWT you must cleanup your allocated resources. Luckily the SWT Composite passed to you, is disposed by the framework so any Widget which you create on this control is disposed for you automatically. Except Fonts, Colors and Images. For … Continue reading
Eclipse Papercut #9 – Default preference settings via plugin_customization.ini – Type Filter Example
Dani Megert gave me in the Eclipse forum the tip how setup default values preferences, in this example for for JDT type filters. The solution is relatively easy. Create in your Eclipse installation directory a file called “plug_customization.ini” and add … Continue reading
Eclipse Papercut #8 – Filtered PackageExplorer by project name
I recently learned from Ian Bull about Feature Patch Projects which allow you to patch existing features. This allowed me to replace my self-written clone of the package explorer with a modified one based on the JDT implementation. The benefit … Continue reading
Replacing the persistence approach for the Eclipse 4 application model
Eclipse 4 uses an instance of the IModelResourceHandler interface to load and save the application model at startup. The default implementation of this interface is provided by the ResourceHandler class from the org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench package. You can specify the modelResourceHandler as … Continue reading