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Have you ever asked yourself why it is so complicated to change the font size of your eclipse working environment? Easpecially when you are working with a notebook and switching between the build in display and different external displays it
Read moreWorking 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 moreSince september 2013 a couple of eclipse project builds fail with a maven infrastructure exception such as Error injecting: org.hudsonci.maven.eventspy_30.DelegatingEventSpy Eclipse Common Build Infrsatructure (CBI) Hudson Server: https://hudson.eclipse.org/hudson/ The reason for this, was a general infrastructure change on the environment.
Read moreWhen developing websites or hybrid mobile apps, it a good practice to compress your JavaScript and CSS stylesheets to reduce the download and loading effort / time. The Yahoo User Interface project YUI provides the YUI compressor, a good infrastructure
Read moreThe new SVN Version 1.8 comes with a new svn meta file format. For example, if you are using Tortoise SVN you might be asked to upgrade your svn directory to version 1.8. In your Eclipse IDE, a wide spread
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 moreWhen you are developing for an Android APP with a real hardware device connected, you might face a situation where the device is detected, but looses the connection after a couple of seconds or minutes, but never reproducable. Your device
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