Some time ago we've created a draft for a Chart widget for RAP, based on the famous D3.js. Together with one of our partners, we decided to carry this work forward and make it available in the RAP Incubator. D3 is a very flexible framework to turn data into dynamic charts. Looking at their examples, it's amazing how many different types of charts there are. Whatever...
Read MoreWhen you need rich text editing in a RAP application, things are getting easier. You may know that there is a RichText component in the RAP Incubator. It's around for a long time and we found it's time for this component to graduate. Interestingly, the Nebula project also provides a RichText editor for SWT, that even works with RAP. Just like the CkEditor widget from the...
Read MoreMaybe you're familiar with Ralf Sternberg's d3 widget for RAP (it's part of the RAP Examples Demo). Like the name implies, it's a charting widget based on the d3 library, which uses SVG to render its elements. I was interested in doing the same with the other popular method used to draw freely in a modern browser, the HTML5 canvas element. The most promising project I...
Read MoreA while ago we started a new RAP Incubator project, the DropDown widget. This is basically a List widget that can be attached to a text field, like the pop-up of a combo box. In itself this widget isn't terribly useful, but it provided the basis for the new AutoSuggest component, which is currently part of the same incubator project. You may also know these kind...
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