Tutorial: Hello Forms
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Tutorial: an Application for showing SWT Examples
In this tutorial we will create an application in order to test the features of the Standard Widget Tootlkit (SWT) library. The figure below shows what the result will look like. INTRODUCTION First we will create a minimal RCP application, using the Plug-in Project creation Eclipse Wizard. The next step will consist into adding a third-party view (SWT Examples, from the Eclipse download site) to our minimal RCP application just created. The result will be an application that will allow us to test deeply all of the SWT library features. The main goal of this tutorial is show how easy [...]
SWT applications in minutes
In this short presentation we will learn how to develop and deploy a simple SWT Application in a few minutes: SWT_Lesson_1.pdf
Eclipse EMF: how to create and persist a model
In this tutorial we will learn how to create and persist an EMF model. The tutorial is based on Eclipse Galileo, but the steps should be the same for older versions. Anyway here are the steps needed if you decide to start from scratch. Download Eclipse Galileo Download Eclipse Galileo 3.5M6 from the Eclipse.org download page, extract on your file-system and run eclipse.exe. Add EMF and Teneo support Go to Help -> Install New Software...; in the text field "Work with:" select "All Avaiable Sites". In the text just after (not labeled) enter "EMF" and wait for the results; you [...]
Eclipse Visual Editor: on the road again!
News Update june 1st, 2011: Visual Editor Project was archived (here the announcement and the archived project page) You will find an update of the news on page And the winner is: WindowBuilder In the Visual Editor Project home page you still can read that the project "is migrating progressively to Eclipse 3.3 (Europa)". Indeed many of you may have had more than a problem when trying to install VE on Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) or on the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo). Well, the years of troubles seems to be gone and Eclipse Visual Editor is again with us! In [...]
Eclipse: installing EMF
In this section we will see how to install the Eclipse Modeling Framework SDK and related tools in Helios (Eclipse 3.6). The following steps have been performed starting from the Eclipse Classic 3.6M4 and are required if you intend to follow our EMF tutorials. Go to menu item Help -> Install New Software..., select --All Available Sites-- and check these items:then click the Next button and follow the wizard until you will be prompted to restart Eclipse.
Managing menu items visibility
In order to manage the visibility of a menu item we can extend AbstractSourceProvider. Let's see how to do that. First of all we have to create a class that extends AbstractSourceProvider. This class is intended to hold the state variable and provide it to the platform when needed. In this example we intend to manage the visibility of a menu item depending on the user profile. [java] package com.rcpvision; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.Map; import org.eclipse.ui.AbstractSourceProvider; import org.eclipse.ui.ISources; public class SessionSourceProvider extends AbstractSourceProvider { public final static String SESSION_USER_CAN_SEE_PREFS = "com.rcpvision.session.user-can-see-preferences"; private final static String CAN_SEE = "canSee"; private final [...]
Visual Editor or WindowBuilder Pro
News Update june 1st, 2011: Visual Editor Project was archived (here the announcement and the archived project page) You will find an update of the news on page And the winner is: WindowBuilder Would you like having a free visual editor for designing your UI in Eclipse RCP technology with Helios (3.6) or Galileo (3.5)? Since yesterday, September 16th 2010, you do not have one choice, but two! You can opt for Eclipse Visual Editor or for WindowBuilder Pro! Visual Editor? But it had some problems when installed on Eclipse Helios (at least after the M4 version), isn't it so? [...]
Eclipse: installing CDO & Net4j
In this section we will see how to install the CDO & Net4j SDKs in Helios (Eclipse 3.6) with EMF already installed. If you have not already installed EMF, please follow the steps illustraded in the Eclipse: installing EMF tutorial. Go to menu item Help -> Install New Software..., select --All Available Sites-- and check these items: then click the Next button and follow the wizard until you will be prompted to restart Eclipse.
Model Driven Development – Eclipse and Modeling
You often hear about Modeling techniques in software development, but what exactly is Modeling? Software development based on modeling techniques, or Model Driven Development, is an alternative to the traditional programming that doesn't require writing source code to compile or run, but consists in creating the model of the software you want to build. The model is realized through visual diagramming tools and, starting from these, the traditional program language is automatically generated. Eclipse Modeling Framework is the Eclipse solution for this topic. It consists in a modeling framework and code generation facility for building tools and other applications based [...]