Archive for April, 2006
Another article in Chinese
Cliff Liang has translated the Eclipse Corner Article “A Shape Diagram Editor” into Chinese. We need somebody to review the translation. If you’re interested, please add your comments to bug #138106.
[ Back to top ]
RSS for articles
I’ve added an RSS feed for articles to the Eclipse Corner website. You can access the feed here. It contains the title, description, and a link to articles changed in the last six months.
Add your comments to Bug#: 137751 if you’d like to change anything about it. For example… would like to have an RSS [...]
[ Back to top ]
Clean up
Cleaning up your code gets easier with Eclipse 3.2. Select a Java element. Any element. It works on classes, packages, and projects (intuitively, the element selected determines the scope of the clean up). Select “Source > Clean Up…” from the context menu. Here’s what you’ll see.
You’re presented with a bunch of options to clean up [...]
[ Back to top ]
Eclipse for Swing development
I’m surprised by the number of folks who don’t realize that you can use Eclipse to build Swing-based applications. There’s no rule that says that you can only use Eclipse to build Eclipse plug-ins or RCP applications. There’s no rules governing the kinds of applications you can build with Eclipse at all (heck, you don’t [...]
[ Back to top ]
Java Browsing
Earlier today, in a blog entry titled “Show Source of Selected Element Only“, author R.J. Lorimer described the “Show source of selected element only” feature. Frankly, it’s a pretty cool feature and I think that R.J. did a bang up job of describing it. However, he missed one important bit of information.
If you’re an old [...]
[ Back to top ]
Using the Selection Service
In this new Eclipse Corner article, “Eclipse Workbench: Using the Selection Service“, author Marc R. Hoffmann describes (oddly enough) the selection service provided by the Eclipse workbench, how it is used by Eclipse and how you can use it in your own plug-ins and RCP applications.
I used Marc’s article to aid my own understanding of [...]
[ Back to top ]
Updating Eclipse Corner Articles…
One of the big problems with maintaining any repository of information is that the information can get out of date. You can help.
All Eclipse Corner articles are in a CVS repository (dev.eclipse.org/cvsroot/org.eclipse). You can hook up to this repository to gain access to the articles (www/articles). Changes to articles can be submitted as patches through [...]
[ Back to top ]
What are the cool things in Callisto?
Callisto itself is pretty cool. Coordinating the release of ten separate Eclipse projects is no small undertaking and the project teams are doing a great job of it. But what’s cool about Callisto for you?
I have my own ideas. Many, many ideas. Too many in fact.
I’m curious to learn what you think is cool in [...]
[ Back to top ]
Targetting a different version of RCP
It is possible (and recommended, in fact) that you develop your RCP application from a target that’s separate from your development environment. By default, when you build plug-ins using Eclipse, you develop against the set of plug-ins that are installed in your development environment. However, using the PDE preferences page, you can setup a completely [...]
[ Back to top ]
Day three in the Linux World expo: better than a kick to the head
And I should know. I’ve been kicked in the head. A few times.
The best part about day three at Linux World was meeting Bill Hilliard from Intel. Bill has a lot of experience with the CDT and was able to educate me as he answered questions about it to our booth visitors. Conveniently, we had [...]
[ Back to top ]
