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...
Read MoreTogether 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...
Read MoreWe 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...
Read MoreTogether 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...
Read MoreUpdate 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreWith 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...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreContainer 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...
Read MoreThe new RAP 3.0 milestone M5 is out and has been available for download since February 6, 2015. Together with several bug fixes, M5 introduces clipping support. Clipping allows you to constrain changes to a selected part of the canvas. Once you select a clipping region, all future drawing operations will be limited to it. The canvas above is filled with rectangles and clipped to a custom...
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