Archive for January, 2010

Getting the Eclipse Build ID

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

Eclipse Bugzilla ask you for your Eclipse Build ID. As I learned from Paul Webster in Bug 300260 you can use the following to put this build ID into the clipboard:

CTRL+3 cbi (Copy Build Id)

Seems like Eclipse has a command for everything. :-)

 

Google the location of a plugin in Eclipse cvs

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

If you want to find the cvs location of a certain Eclipse plugin you can use Google site search using site:”dev.eclipse.org/viewsvn”.

For example if you are looking for the cvs location of the plugin “org.eclipse.e4.tools.ui” you can run the following Google search:

“org.eclipse.e4.tools.ui” site:dev.eclipse.org/viewsvn

Thanks to Tom Seidel for sharing this tip via twitter.

 

vogella.de news

Monday, January 18th, 2010

I received the feedback that my overview pages are difficult to read. I recently spent some time to enhance the usability of http://www.vogella.de.

Before the change the page looked like this:

I introducted now sub-categories which are used to structure the articles in a logical way.

Now it looks like this:

My hope is that this improves the readability and helps to find articles more quickly.

Let me know what you think. Are there other improvements you would like to see?

 

Eclipse e4 tutorial – Update

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

I had several l requests to update Create your first Eclipse e4 application to the latest changes.

I have written an updated version of this description Eclipse e4 tutorial. It should be compliant with the Eclipse e4 Milestone 3.

Like the blog entry this is currently only creating a very simple example. I’m planning to extend this tutorial over time to demonstrate the advantages of dependency injection, css styling, different renderes, etc.

Hope this helps getting started with Eclipse e4.

Let me know what you think about e4 and what e4 functionality should be also be the tutorial.

 

TreetableViewer Example

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

In regards to my JFace Table Tutorial I got the question how to create a TreeTableViewer in the vogella Google Group .

Friedmut Hill was kind enough to point to the following Wiki entry with TreeTableViewer example which gives a very nice and concise example.

Thanks to Friedmut for sharing this information!