This source describes how to deploy RCP applications for operating systems other than the operating system you are developing on.
The tutorial is just great and shows how easy cross-platform deployment is!
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Showing posts with label eclipse. Show all posts
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
First Experience with Eclipse RCP / SWT / JFace
About three years ago, I bought a (german) book about Rich-Client development with the Eclipse RCP, which I did not finish reading, as I did not like it. That's why I searched for Eclipse RCP tutorials on the Internet, and I found some nice ones.
So I successfully ported my ImageResizer application to Eclipse. Honestly, I did not make use of many of the RCP's features, but there was not much reason for that.
Things I've learned:
The next things is a cross-operating-system build with the delta pack (download page).
Probably I will publish source code and/or more detailed instructions when this (small) project is finished.
The following tutorials are the most important ones I used, and which I can recommend:
So I successfully ported my ImageResizer application to Eclipse. Honestly, I did not make use of many of the RCP's features, but there was not much reason for that.
Things I've learned:
- Building a GUI with SWT / JFace
- Basic components, Layouts, Listeners
- JFace's Viewer mechanism with ContentProvider, LabelProvider and an Input-Object
- Create a Plugin-Project with Eclipse
- Layout the Perspective
- Use the Error-Log-View (org.eclipse.pde.runtime.LogView)
- Export the Application
The next things is a cross-operating-system build with the delta pack (download page).
Probably I will publish source code and/or more detailed instructions when this (small) project is finished.
The following tutorials are the most important ones I used, and which I can recommend:
- General Intro: http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseRCP/article.html
- SWT Widgets overview: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/widgets/
- SWT Snippets: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Time for new things
As my master thesis is done, I finally have time for other things.
The first of these things is this blog. I am going to post topics related to computer science (in the broadest sense).
In exactly two months I will start to travel, so the time to catch up with technologies, books, projects, etc, that aroused my interest throughout the past months and years (but had no high priority due to lack of time) is quite limited (so the lack of time might come back soon...).
However, I want to stay up-to-date with the progresses in the computer world during the journey, and am planning to continue posting to this blog (that's one of the reasons why I started it).
I am also planning to make a travel blog. For this purpose, I am going to prepare myself by arranging and adjusting software that might support administrating my online resources from Internet cafès with slow Internet connections.
Some time ago I have written a simple, small Java program, called ImageResizer.
It offers to load a directory of JPG files and shrink it to a configurable size into a subdirectory called resized. The software is really trivial and did not take a lot of time to be written. But it helps uploading lots of (small-sized) pictures to the blog, without manually resizing them and having to waste time waiting for slow connections.
I always was interested in writing an Eclipse RCP application. So I am going to port this small ImageResizer GUI (Java Swing) to an application based on the Eclipse platform.
The purpose is to improve my skills and learn new technologies, and finally I am going to use the software on my journey.
My final goal is to have a set of programs (e.g. including ftp clients, ssh clients, etc.) that are a reasonable replacement for my desktop computer.
P.S.: Yeah, I know, that this is one of the most basic blogger-templates, but I like it, and do not want to spend much time on modifying it.
The first of these things is this blog. I am going to post topics related to computer science (in the broadest sense).
In exactly two months I will start to travel, so the time to catch up with technologies, books, projects, etc, that aroused my interest throughout the past months and years (but had no high priority due to lack of time) is quite limited (so the lack of time might come back soon...).
However, I want to stay up-to-date with the progresses in the computer world during the journey, and am planning to continue posting to this blog (that's one of the reasons why I started it).
I am also planning to make a travel blog. For this purpose, I am going to prepare myself by arranging and adjusting software that might support administrating my online resources from Internet cafès with slow Internet connections.
Some time ago I have written a simple, small Java program, called ImageResizer.
It offers to load a directory of JPG files and shrink it to a configurable size into a subdirectory called resized. The software is really trivial and did not take a lot of time to be written. But it helps uploading lots of (small-sized) pictures to the blog, without manually resizing them and having to waste time waiting for slow connections.
I always was interested in writing an Eclipse RCP application. So I am going to port this small ImageResizer GUI (Java Swing) to an application based on the Eclipse platform.
The purpose is to improve my skills and learn new technologies, and finally I am going to use the software on my journey.
My final goal is to have a set of programs (e.g. including ftp clients, ssh clients, etc.) that are a reasonable replacement for my desktop computer.
P.S.: Yeah, I know, that this is one of the most basic blogger-templates, but I like it, and do not want to spend much time on modifying it.
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