Jeff Mesnil’s Weblog

While cleaning up my workpace, I (re) discovered a small application I wrote to familiarize myself with Eclipse editors development.

It is a simple outliner which reads and writes OPML files. Each OPML file is opened in an Eclipse Editor. You can navigate the outliner, indent/outdent the outlines, create new outlines and edit them. To toggle between […]

I just found a new Interface in Eclipse which I found quite handy.

Let’s say that you have an action which creates a new resource and you want to notify views that they have to show this resource.

The key interface is ISetSelectionTarget. If your views respond to this interface (by implementation or adaptation), they can then receive a […]

Eclipse 3.2 is out and it is a great release.

However, the default Welcome page I had on my Ubuntu desktop is quite broken

it is ugly the links to the workbench are broken (links like http://org.eclipse.ui.intro/showPage?id=overview open in Firefox) when I close it, it asks me to save a file

After a little search on eclipe.org SWT FAQ, it […]