Quick reference on Eclipse E4 Spies I use for development and debug of Eclipse E4 RCP Applications. Eclipse Spy Shortcuts: ALT+SHIFT+ ( F1 | F2 | F3 | F5 | F6 | F8 | F9 | F10 | F12 ) Running platform: Mars SDK added by all plugins in platformUiTools.psf, plus Read more…
This post quickly explains how to run GEF4 examples in an Eclipse E4 Application. Basic Concepts No more Draw2D. GEF4 uses JavaFx Scene and Parent In a Scene graph we can put SWTControls (heavyweight) and Figures (lightweight) a CanvasFigure (lightweight) Environment Setup First of all, mind that all the installation Read more…
The Eclipse4 project is a cluster of related technologies for building extensible component-based applications [e4 whitepaper]. This article explains only how to contribute to the E4 Tools project, by using a concrete use case: “contribute to the model editor”. References https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/eclipse.e4/developer https://wiki.eclipse.org/E4_setup_source_code Clone E4 Tools src from Gerrit The https Read more…
Any E4 Application is based on the application model, which is generated starting from an EMF Model. This model is available in the project org.eclipse.e4.ui.model.workbench, hosted in the eclipse.platform.ui repository. Open model>UIElements.ecore to see the EMF Model The basic elements, like Part, CompositePart, InputPart, etc.. are defined under the basic Read more…
Environment Setup and Source Code As prerequisite we will need to get Eclipse SDK and add the E4 Tools. in this tutorial we use Eclipse IDE for Eclipse Committers 4.5.0 M5 plus the E4 Tools I20150105-1100. The source code for this examples is in project com.asegno.e4app.first , clonable from https://github.com/psuzzi/asegno.git repo. Create an E4 RCP Application CTRL+N Read more…