Posts tagged with "swt"

Working with tables or trees with more than a handful of rows, you quickly find that you need a way to filter or search for content, otherwise they become unusable. The Eclipse workbench offers an out-of-the-box component named FilteredTree which adds an input field to an SWT tree where filter strings can be entered by [...]

If you write a ‘pure’ SWT application on the Mac (i.e. just SWT — no RCP/workbench), you will notice that the OS-X application menu is not properly configured. It just displays ‘SWT‘ instead of the application name. Furthermore, the ‘About SWT‘ and ‘Preferences…‘ menu entries have no effect. The remainder of this blog explains how [...]

All of you who are using SWT/RWT Tree or Table widget, know their limitations pretty well. Sooner or later you’ll look for a way to add check boxes in multiple columns, group columns and show/hide them dynamically or put some information in a Table footer. Nebula Grid widget fulfills all these requirements. That’s why we [...]

Behold, finally a big update to the RAP Developer’s Guide! After neglecting it a bit in the last release, the RAP team worked hard to get it in shape for Juno. With a lof of the information on RAP scattered around in blogbosts, forum entries, wiki pages and javadocs, newcomer (and in some case experts) [...]

A few weeks ago Google announced their WindowBuilder contribution to the Eclipse Foundation. The WindowBuilder was originally created by Instantiations and moved to Google after they swallowed Instantiations back in 2010. Anyway, the WindowBuilder is a first class visual editor for creating UIs and will be maintained by Google. It contains an Editor for three [...]

A few weeks ago, my colleague Ralf Sternberg, announced that RAP supports a JQuery integration. What we still needed to do was to create an example that shows how to integrate some JQuery stuff into RAP. Yesterday I took a little time to work on it. I used the JQueryUI Carousel widget as a base. [...]

Last week Wim Jongman bloged about the Nebula Oscilloscope widget. It’s just an awesome widget for monitoring activity. See Wim’s post to form an opinion yourself. So, for me as a RAP developer, the first question I always ask myself when seeing such a cool thing is: “Will it run on RAP?”. I followed the [...]

Two days ago was the Helios DemoCamp in Darmstadt at Deutsche Telekom.  I think it was a very successful evening with a whole bunch of good talks. Two of them are very noteworthy. The first one was presented by Marcel Bruch. He talked about the Eclipse Code Recommenders project which he’s working on at TU Darmstadt. [...]

From time to time, I’m in the situation when I want to suggest a UI change or even try to come up with a completely new UI. While I love programming, it may be easier in these situations to just “sketch” the idea instead of really getting your feet wet. As many people asked me [...]