I've found many sources that talk about the automated Eclipse PDE process. I feel these sources don't do a good job explaining what's going on. I can create the deployable package, in a semi-manual process via the Feature Export. The automated process requires knowledge of how the org.eclipse.pde.build scripts work. I have gotten a...
I have read through several reviews on Amazon and some books seem outdated. I am currently using MyEclipse 6.5 which is using Eclipse 3.3. I'm interested in hearing from people that have experience learning RCP and what reference material they used to get started. Thanks in advance. Bruce ...
I am coding a client-server application using Eclipse's RCP. We are having trouble testing the interaction between the two sides as they both contain a lot of GUI and provide no command-line or other remote API. Got any ideas? ...
What did I do wrong? Here is an excerpt from my code: public void createPartControl(Composite parent) { parent.setLayout(new FillLayout()); ScrolledComposite scrollBox = new ScrolledComposite(parent, SWT.V_SCROLL); scrollBox.setExpandHorizontal(true); mParent = new Composite(scrollBox, SWT.NONE); scrollBox.setContent(mParent)...
I'm writing a wizard for an Eclipse RCP application. After doing some processing on a file and taking some user input, I don't want to let the user go back to make changes. At this point they must either accept or reject the changes they are about to make to the system. What I can't seem to find is a method call that lets me override ...
I have an Eclipse RCP app running on Java 6. When I try to run the product configuration from within Eclipse, it silently terminates almost immediately. No error is reported in the console. I've tried setting breakpoints in the IApplication and in the Activator, and neither are reached. I know I don't have much specific information h...
Greetings, I am trying to build an Eclipse application that would work with a linux/motif installation target. However, this seems not to be possible even though the export option is available in the product export wizard. I've checked the content of the delta pack and indeed, the packages for linux/motif are missing. After checking ...
I would like to know where can I find the code which eclipse uses to display the forms in the plugin.xml file. In particular I am looking for the form layout used in the extension tab in the plugin.xml ...
I have only a basic understanding of Eclipse RCP. I am about to start an in-house application for our technical support team, that will likely grow over time. The team is distributed across continents so I would like to be able to auto-update the application when new versions are made available. The application aims to capture knowledge...
I am trying to add some custom build steps to my headless build process for an Eclipse RCP application. I understand that the recommended way is to provide a customBuildCallbacks.xml file on the plug-in directory, and adding a link to it in the build.properties file. # This property sets the location of the customb Build callback cus...
I am trying to deploy our eRCP (embedded Rich Client Platform) application on a Windows CE5 Professional device. While the eRCP demo applications work fine on the J9 VM upon starting our application I get the following exception: !ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 4 0 2008-09-24 11:01:15.088 !MESSAGE An error occurred while automatically activatin...
Hello, I vahe eclipse rcp app. In my plugin A I use 3rd party plugin B. In plugin B there is plugin.xml with some extensions. In my plugin A I have added some extensions to extensions defined in plugin B, and it works. Now I tried to overwrite some values in some extensions from B in plugin A. Now, when I run app sometimes it uses old v...
In Eclipse, its easy to specify buttons for your toolbar using the ActionSets extension point. However, when I need to specify some items programmatically, I can't get the same look. I don't believe that the framework is using native buttons for these, but so far, I can't find the right recipe to match the Eclipse look. I wanted to se...
I have a plug-in to an Eclipse RCP application that has a view. After an event occurs in the RCP application, the plug-in is instantiated, its methods are called to populate the plug-in's model, but I cannot find how to make the view appear without going to the "Show View..." menu. I would think that there would be something in the wor...
I am building a desktop application. Our analysis says it would be better built with a RCP. Should I use the eclipse or netbeans platform to build my application . Some of the factors to consider are Performance Look and Feel Popularity among target users (developers/testers) License (has to be some FOSS) The application will be havi...
I am creating an Eclipse RCP application. I am following Joel's advice in the following article "Daily Builds are your friend": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000023.html So, I've written a nice build script that creates an Eclipse RCP product and that runs unit tests on the code. All results are then distributed to th...
I want to use the "Web Tools Editor" that is part of the Web Tools Plattform in my own RCP-Application. I think i have got some understanding on the RCP plattform by now, but I still have no clue how to access the functionality of the pagedesigner (org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner) after adding it as a dependency to my project. Has anyone so...
I've been working with web start for a couple years now and have experience with signing the jars and what not. I am taking my first attempt at deploying a RCP app with web start and though I have in fact signed all of the jars with the same certificate I keep getting this error: 'jar resources in jnlp are not signed by the same certific...
I've followed this example: RCP+JavaWS but the app just briefly comes up and goes away. I've turned the console on and it quickly goes away too. I've tried adding: -console, -consoleLog, and -noExit to my application-desc args and I have searched my Application Data dir to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas where I could look to find...
I have multiple views in an eclipse RCP application: 1) map view with push pin icons 2) list view of all push pins 3) a view displaying the push pin properties I also have a model object with a get/setActivePushPin acessor methods. How do I properly coordinate the push pin selection? When I select a push pin on either the map or list...