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Author: Ivan Furnadjiev

18 Oct 2021

Tabris for Eclipse RAP 3.17 released!

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in Mobile, Uncategorized
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Tabris for Eclipse RAP 3.17 is a minor update that includes some additions and improvements. New and Noteworthy Dependencies Tabris for Eclipse RAP is now based on Tabris.js 3.8 and RAP 3.17 and it requires Java 11 as a runtime environment. Although there is no direct change in the RAP runtime to use Java 11, this requirement is now enforced by the Eclipse Platform. Performance Tabris.js 3.8 update brings significant...

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17 Jun 2020

RAP 3.13 brings cell selection to Nebula Grid widget

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in Uncategorized
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It's spring, it's June, it's time for the new Eclipse and RAP release. This time we are happy to announce that one of the most requested features, the Nebula Grid - cell selection, landed in RAP 3.13.  All of you who are familiar with JFace Tree/TableViewer know the SWTFocusCellManager and FocusCellOwnerDrawHighlighter classes. These classes allow you to highlight and select a particular cell in the SWT...

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19 Sep 2019

Remote Application Platform (RAP) 3.10 is available for download

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in Uncategorized
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Together with the Eclipse Simultaneous Release 2019-09 we released RAP 3.10. It’s available from our download page and from the update sites. As many other Eclipse projects, we decided to raise the minimal execution environment in this release to Java 8. We already had several projects that depend on platform bundles moved to Java 8 in the passed. Using Java 8 everywhere will make our life easier and...

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13 Jun 2019

Tabris for Eclipse RAP 3.6 released!

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in Mobile, Uncategorized
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We are proud to announce the release of Tabris for Eclipse RAP 3.6. From now on, the Tabris for Eclipse RAP version number will be bound to the version of Eclipse RAP it corresponds to.  This is a major release, which includes a significant advance in the framework architecture. On the client side it now uses Tabris.js, which has the following benefits over the previous...

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19 Dec 2018

RAP 3.7 Released!

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Planet Eclipse, Technology
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Together with the Eclipse Simultaneous Release 2018-12 we are releasing RAP 3.7 today. It's available from our download page and from the update sites. Highlights in this release are: New FileDialog API for specifying upload directory It's now possible to specify where the uploaded files will be stored. If uploadDirectory is not set, a temporary directory will be used as before. org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog.setUploadDirectory(File) org.eclipse.swt.widgets.FileDialog.getUploadDirectory() Support for upcoming Firefox 65+ release As we already...

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21 Oct 2018

Firefox change breaks key navigation in web frameworks including Eclipse RAP

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Planet Eclipse, Technology
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Update 1: As of October 31, 2018 Firefox will postpone the change probably to its Firefox 65 release planned for January 29, 2019. Update 2: It's confirmed that the change will be included in Firefox 65. Prepare for a significant change in how Firefox works with the Remote Application Platform (RAP) Eclipse RAP (Remote Application Platform) runs in all relevant web browsers, without any add-ons required. Only JavaScript...

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17 Sep 2018

Develop modern web UIs with the newest Eclipse RAP 3.6

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Technology
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The Eclipse Remote Application Platform (RAP) is a stable, feature complete framework, that allows you to develop modern web UIs for all relevant web browsers. The project has been around for more than 12 years, and with this blog post, we want to present the new features from RAP versions 3.3 to 3.6. For those who joined the RAP community recently, it is worth to mention...

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22 Jun 2016

RAP 3.1 is here

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice
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With the release of Eclipse Neon, we are proud to announce that RAP 3.1 is released and available for download. Incidentally, just yesterday RAP celebrated its 10th birthday since creation review! We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our users, committers and contributors, without whom this technology would not be what it is. On to the highlights of this release. New service interface ClientFileLoader Custom widgets often require their...

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22 Dec 2015

RAP 3.1 M4 is here

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice
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This is a quick look at the new features in RAP 3.1 M4, which has been available for download since last week. Transformation Support for Canvas The Canvas' GraphicsContext now implements the setTransform method: [raw] Transform transform = new Transform( display ); gc.setTransform( transform ); gc.setBackground( display.getSystemColor( SWT.COLOR_BLACK ) ); gc.fillRectangle( 0, 0, 100, 50 ); transform.rotate( 10 ); gc.setTransform( transform ); gc.setBackground( display.getSystemColor( SWT.COLOR_RED ) ); gc.fillRectangle( 0, 0, 100, 50 ); transform.rotate( 10 ); gc.setTransform( transform...

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15 Apr 2015

How to use Container Dependency Injection in a RAP application

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News
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Container Dependency Injection (CDI) allows us to inject one or more components (or services) into a dependent object. Usually it makes the code cleaner, as it separates the creation of the injected objects from the component's own behavior. Recently I've made a simple RAP standalone application to play together with CDI without problems. First, let's create our RAP entry point class: [raw] public class HelloWorld extends AbstractEntryPoint...

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