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Working with fonts in Eclipse ui plugins is sometimes a bit indirectly. For example, if you want to set an element’s font to bold, you can not simply set item.setBold() or item.getFont().setBold(). The best way to get around this, is
Read moreEclipse JFace infrastructure provides a powerful infrastructure called ViewerFilter, to allow the user to filter content presented in a viewer. Especially TreeViewers as extensively used by common navigator framework (CNF) based viewers such as the Project Explorer or Package Explorer
Read moreOnline Resources for Eclipse standard and compatible Icons In addition to using Eclipse build in image/icon access API (see my previous Post ), there are reasonable websites to access Eclipse icons or free ones that are compatible with them. Eclipse
Read moreWhen developing Eclipse plugins that should contribute to the UI, it is reasonable to align with the Eclipse UI design. For example, within tree representations or in other UI elements, you might want to include the standard icons used in
Read moreMany popular framework provide facilities requiring static imports in your code. Other than with regular Types, the Eclipse Java Development Tools (JDT) code completion does not work out-of-the-box for statically imported methods. For example, when writing JUnit Test Cases, you
Read moreEclipse provides the capability to specify custom context menus and add them via extension points. Furthermore, it is possible to add a context menu to your self implemented viewer. There are several tutorials out there how this is done. However,
Read moreIf you are developing your own metamodel, EMF provides you the capability to reference elements from another meta model. Later, when you try to generate java code for your meta model and according edit and editor plugins, you might get
Read moreThe eclipse tool project provides the Buckminster project to automate the build process for eclipse plugins, features and update sites. The jenkins continuous integration server also provides a plugin to integrate buckminster into the automated build process. A good continuous
Read moreOne of the first things I do when working with eclipse is to raise the allocated memory. This will make eclipse running more smoothly. However, when developing eclipse plugins and applications you might have faced an OutOfMemoryException because of your
Read moreLogging can be used for a lot of different of use cases, ranging from debug messages during development upto application monitoring in production. In the past, log4j was set as a de facto standard, slf4j and the java internal java.util.logging
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