Ever wanted to add spelling checking to a dialog, form or some editor in your Eclipse-based application? Well, I needed to do this recently for a project and thought I would share with people how it can be done (also, I had people emailing me to write more tips ;p). The spell checking infrastructure in Eclipse is handled by the text editor framework. Specifically, there's an...
Read Moree4 is now an official incubating project under the Eclipse project, the review ended positively and uneventful. There have been some promising experiments and demos going on already, the latest ones mainly targeting the desktop side of the affairs. Using the source code of the latest EMF based demos and compiling it against the RAP target platform revealed only a few api methods that were not...
Read MoreThe Eclipse Packaging Project is working on a wizard that allows you to build your own customizable download, combining plug-ins from predefined packages and Ganymede. The wizard uses Eclipse runtime technology – namely RAP for the web frontend and Equinox P2 for the installer. Before exposing the wizard to a wider audience, we had one burning question: Does it scale up to the volume of...
Read MoreI can't count how many times I have come across developers that aren't using project level settings. It makes me a bit sad in the beginning, but once I show people what you can do with project level settings, I'm immediately filled with glee. Why should you use project level settings? The main reason is that you can enforce these settings all across your team...
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