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Author: Ivan Furnadjiev

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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13 Feb 2015

RAP 3.0 M5: Clipping Support, KTable Port in RAP

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Planet Eclipse
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The 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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07 Oct 2013

The evolution of RAP’s FileDialog

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News
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The ability to upload files is key functionality for every Web application and, naturally RAP can upload files too. In the beginning ( RAP 1.2 ), this functionality was provided by a custom widget called Upload. This widget was based on an early version of the Qooxdoo UploadWidget contribution project. In RAP 1.4 the old Upload widget was deprecated and replaced by a new FileUpload RWT...

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14 Jun 2013

Drawing Complex Shapes in RAP

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News, Editors choice, Planet Eclipse
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In RAP 1.3, we added support for GC (Graphics Context) to the canvas widget. It allows you to draw simple shapes such as lines, squares, ovals or arcs, and fill them with solid colors or gradients. Most of the time, this will suffice your needs, but sometimes you may also want to draw more complex shapes such as quadratic or bezier curves. Luckily, RAP 2.1 is just around...

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26 Jan 2013

Getting started with RAP

by Ivan Furnadjiev
in EclipseSource News
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For beginner developers is very important to have a fast start in a new technology. RAP Tools provide three PDE templates from its version 1.0, but all of them are based on the Eclipse workbench model and its extension points. Starting from RAP version 1.5, it's possible to create a lightweight OSGi applications using RAP’s widget toolkit. That's why we decided to replace two of...

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