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...
Read More... like tiny red circles with numbers on them. RAP 3.0M1 (to be published this Friday) consists mainly of internal changes, like getting rid of old API and IE8 support. However, we did have time to add this nifty little feature for the TabItem widget. Called "badges", these small icons let the user know that there was activity in a view or window that is not...
Read MoreThe first milestone of RAP 2.2 has been published last Friday. It's main attraction is the RWT Scripting feature which was formerly known as the incubator "ClientScripting" project. If you are currently using ClientScripting and wish to upgrade to RAP 2.2 (which will be released in December 2013), you should be aware of some breaking changes*: Namespace: The ClientListener has been...
Read MoreThe RAP 1.5 M6 milestone build is packed with new features, especially for Trees and Tables. But most notably, you can now use HTML markup in Tables, Trees, and also in Labels: Just enable the markup support for a certain widget (see below), then you can make its text bold, italic, yellow or … no, not blinking! Actually, RAP will validate the markup and allows only...
Read MoreUpdate 2: The new interfaces have been renamed again in RAP 1.5M7. Please refer to this post for the details and check out the updated code example. Update: APIs have changed a bit meanwhile, so I updated the code below accordingly. Entry points are now registered by path, and JEE_COMPLATIBILTIY has become the default mode, which makes the main loop obsolete in this kind of applications. RAP...
Read MoreWe proudly present Riena 2.0 M5 - the first release in the 2.0 stream. As you can see by the long New & Noteworthy, we have been very active in last six weeks. Read on for my five favorite new things: 1. Pluggable Marker Decorations The new BorderMarkerSupport draws red-borders around a widget and replaces the standard ControlDecoration. You can select either error decoration style via the...
Read MoreWe Riena committers smoothly shipped a fresh Riena Milestone last Friday, this time 1.2.0.M3 (download). Here's the New & Noteworthy and the list of resolved items. For the curious, here is the schedule leading towards the December release: 12/04 - 1.2.0 RC1 12/11 - 1.2.0 RC2 12/15 - 1.2.0 After that the work will start concentrating on the summer release, which is part of the Helios release train....
Read MoreAfter another 6 weeks of working hard towards the Helios Release, we're a step closer. RAP M3 for Eclipse 3.6 is out and can be obtained from the RAP project page. Besides another 130 bugfixes and many New and Noteworthy features, here are my personal favorites of this milestone: Non-shared SWT resources Finally, we decided to provide constructors and a dispose mechanism for SWT resources like fonts,...
Read MoreMilestone #3 for Eclipse 3.6 is now available for download. Here are the noteworthy changes up this milestone: 3.6 M3 - New and Noteworthy 3.6 M2 - New and Noteworthy 3.6 M1 - New and Noteworthy My favorite change is the new support for software installation while running & debugging. This should be a huge time-saver for all developers who are adding p2 support to their RCP apps. It permits...
Read MoreThe Riena committers have just done it again: Riena 1.2.0.M2 is now out the door (download). Here's the New & Noteworthy and the issues fixed in this milestone. Read on for my personal favorites: New ridgets: ILinkRidget, IBrowserRidget, ITraverseRidget (for SWT's Slider, Scale and Spinner widgets). Thanks to Florian from Redview for these contributions (snippets) IComboRidget now supports CCombo: the CCombo widget works much better with our marker...
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