Building tables made easy: TableViewerBuilder
In my last RCP training the participants complained a bit about the JFace TableViewer API. I have to agree, tables are the bread and butter of many RCP business applications and binding tables to your...
View ArticleContributing commands to context menus
In the following post I’ll show how one creates context menus for structured viewers in Eclipse RCP applications and how to contribute Eclipse commands to such a context menu:Creating the context...
View ArticleEclipse RCP examples
In this blog post I’ll show you some Eclipse RCP example applications that you can use to explore the Eclipse RCP platform.RCP Mail 2.0RCP Mail 2.0 is an enhanced version of the “RCP Mail” template...
View ArticleHeadless Eclipse RCP builds with Buckminster and Hudson
The tutorial will show how to set up a headless build for the Mail sample application using Eclipse Buckminster and the Hudson build server:How to define and share a target platformHow to export a p2...
View ArticleTutorial: p2 updates for Eclipse RCP applications
In this tutorial I’ll show how to make the RCP mail example application updatable using the p2 provisioning platform. This version of the tutorial is for Eclipse 3.6 from the Helios release. I assume...
View ArticleJFace Wizard FAQ
How to implement a JFace Wizard?Create a WizardPage subclass for every step of the wizard, for...
View ArticleJFace Data Binding & WindowBuilder: Exchangeable model objects
A very common case in UI applications are forms which are bound to exchangeable model objects. For example, one might want to bind this address form in such a way that you can set a new Address object...
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