Sunrise mountain
For a little while, I planned to hike to the summit of Le Moucherotte near Grenoble at night in order to see the sunrise behind Le massif de Belledonne.
Some weeks ago, they announce a clear night in the mountain and cloudy in the valley. It means, walk easily in the mountain, have a nice sight and a sea of cloud. I took this opportunity.
Click on the image to see the result :
I hope that you enjoy my panorama and that you want to see Sunrise Mountain asap 🙂
PS: thanks to Baptiste that lend me his camera
PS2: Unfortunately, Wordpress won’t let me have huger image directly 😦
Me, my blog and Bonita
I know… this blog is not very active. But I’m working on an amazing project which takes a lot of time. This project is Bonita Open Solution. I am in particular on the studio development, an Eclipse RCP application based on GMF.
I’m writing this post to point the bonita blog, in particularly the eclipse category. Technical articles from the R&D team of bonita will be here.
There is already two articles :
- the first is on Automation of SWTBot test wrote by Mickaël Istria
- the second is on how to use -elegantly- templates to customize your GMF editor that I wrote 🙂
I want to mention that these posts are on EclipsePlanet RSS flux.
If you are interested that we wrote on a particular topic, don’t hesitate to tell us 🙂
Eclipse 3.6M4 is available
Just a quick post to inform you that a new milestone of Eclipse 3.6 is here.
There are some cute new features. Let see two them :
– Fix multiple problems via problem hover
– Type Hierarchy opened in background
I let you explore the other new features on the N&N page.
Enjoy!!
Eclipse Tips – Some useful static access for PDE/RCP developper
Did you ever be amazed when discovering a static method that provides you exactly the feature that you need?
No later than this week, I was (again) amazed by such a killer feature. It was just when I want to open the log file in an editor. With 4 classes, it was done!!
So, I will share with you these classes and some of my beloved static methods also provides by them.
- PlatformUI : the one that I used the most…
– access to the Workbench and so easy access to all parts of your application (and get the active ones),
– the PreferenceStore where you can set some preferences of the user,
– and can also create Display to… display ^^ a new window - Platform : we can found a lot of things, I advice you take a look.
– provides a lot of OS related information,
– access to the ExtensionRegistry (all extensions declared… and providing to your extension points ;)),
– the log file location,
– … and many other things!! - EFS (which stands for Eclipse File System) : Introduce in 3.2, I think that it is an underrated class and that it provides a good API to manipulate files.
– static access to files giving it URI, IPath, File…
– and then manipulating easily via the interface IFileStore which is returned - IDE : A lot of convenience method to open file in editor
– convenience method to open file from inside and outside of the workspace
– convenience method to open file designed by URI, IPath, IFile,…
– convenience method to open a file at a specified Marker
– … and some other options
I let you discover all the possibilities… and share your beloved ones!!
e4 0.9 tech preview is out!!
As said in the title, e4 0.9 tech preview is out… What is it? Ok, if you’re not totally Eclipse addictive (like me ^^), maybe you never heard of it. So e4 stands for Eclipse 4. It means that there is a major modification of the Eclipse Platform. 0.9 tech preview means that it is an official version for preview of what such wonderful things it will provides. You want a quick overview of some of these new things? Ok, let’s go 🙂
The most visual improvement is… the UI ^^
And one of the great feature is that you can now customize the visual of each component just using CSS . Yes just like web pages but for a desktop application.
I think there are two main goals of that :
– A customizable UI of Eclipse and subsequently, of RCP applications.
– Facilities to create a web and desktop application based on the same code, you can adjust rendering with CSS.
For instance you can look about the demos provides with the released version and checked out the custom UI.
Using a simple Command inMenu, you can choose different CSS, no need to restart your application :
One another noticeable improvement is the modification of the resource management (IResource). A better mangement of nested project and linked resource can be used. By instance you can create logical group of projects.
Even if it is a 4.x version, Eclipse 3.x is compatible!! There is a compatibility layer in e4 to support 3.x plugins.
If you want to know more, I advice you to follow the webinars.
Source :
http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4 : the official site
Eclipse 3.5 – some PDE improvements
With Eclipse 3.5, some new interesting features appears to improve the publication of Eclipse products and features.
Now you can publish p2 metadata directly from the build instead of generating it later based on binary jars.
To do that, just put this property :
p2.gathering =true
You can precise repositories of metadata by setting : p2.metadata.repo and p2.artifact.repo.
An other result of setting the p2.gathering property to true is that root files contributed by features will be published into the artifact repository and associated metadata will be created. So, you have directly the feature’s root files installed.
There’s another great feature. Now you can choose the replacement of the .qualifier used in a product build. Just set the p2.product.qualifier to the qualifier you want to use.
You can now easily export source bundles too. There’s an option to generate a source bundle for each generated plug-ins.
Eclipse 3.5 provides facilities to publish features categories on export. (more info here).
This previous feature is quite useful, mostly if we look at the new software update skin!! If you have set no categories for your features, by default they won’t appeared.
You will have to checked out the “Group items by categories” options.
As we talked of the new software update skin. We can notice that the UI is greatly improved. And I found a little thing that I find useful : define names for software sites. (more info here)
Hello world!
Welcome everybody on my Blog
I will put here various information. My posts will mainly be Eclipse-related.
See you soon!!
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