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Monthly Archives: October 2004
What to do when you get an UnsatisifiedLinkError when running an SWT or JFace application
So you’re trying to run an SWT application (or JFace, since JFace relies on SWT) inside Eclipse and you get the dreaded UnsatisfiedLinkError. This usually appears as one of the following: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-pi-carbon-3063 in java.library.path … Continue reading
Posted in Eclipse, JFace, SWT
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Things I wish I knew when I first started using SWT on Windows
SWT on Windows was probably the “killer app” or “killer feature” of Eclipse. When Eclipse 1.0 came out, it looked great on Windows, was fast, and was indistinguishable from any other Windows app. Before that, you could always tell that … Continue reading
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Things I wish I knew when I first started using SWT on a Mac
I’ve got a friend who I persuaded to try Eclipse and is just learning how to use it. So it got me thinking: what would I have wanted someone to tell me when I first started programming with Eclipse? Today, … Continue reading
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How to run Eclipse from the command line in OS X (and Windows and Linux)
The Mac is very easy to use due to its innovative packaging system for applications, where it hides an entire tree of directories inside one file/icon. With Eclipse, this shows up as the Eclipse icon that we know and love. … Continue reading
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Why your car stereo needs a joystick
I think that user experience is important for software, but also for hardware. Think about it: the more you interact with something, either it becomes more invisible to you (and thus becomes “easy to use”) or the more its poor … Continue reading
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The Trouble with Common Names
Have you ever tried to search for Eclipse related info with Google? You’ll find your results cluttered with pages about solar eclipses, mobile entertainment systems, a constraint logic programming system (with the crazy capitalization scheme “ECLiPSe”), among other things you’ve … Continue reading
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Whatever happened to Cloudscape? (or what is Derby?)
Have you ever used Cloudscape? It’s a relational database that is written in Java. It’s been in development since 1996. One of the nice features is that it can be embedded in Java programs. I’ll write more about the benefits … Continue reading
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Unofficial Guide to Eclipse 3.1 (Part 3)
Tonight, I’ll wrap up my look into the plans for Eclipse 3.1. I had planned at going sub-project by sub-project for all the sub-projects in the Eclipse Technology Project. However, I realized that this project is partly incubator for projects, … Continue reading
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Unofficial Guide to Eclipse 3.1 (Part 2)
Today I continue looking at the plans for Eclipse 3.1 by looking at the Eclipse Tools project. I consider most of these “things that should probably be in Eclipse when you download it, but aren’t yet.” Since these are essentially … Continue reading
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Unofficial Guide to Eclipse 3.1 (Part 1)
I’m a big believer in looking and planning ahead. So, since I depend on Eclipse as an IDE and as an application development platform, I thought it would be wise to find out what is in Eclipse 3.1. (At the … Continue reading