Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM

This usually is happened when launching a 32-bit SWT application on MacOS. The solution lives on the SWT official FAQs

You need to be sure that you are forcing your launch to use a 32-bit VM. Apple ships most of their VMs with 32 and 64-bit binaries. To force the VM to run in 32-bit mode, use the -d32 option as VM argument in your launch configuration. Note that as of Snow Leopard (OS X v10.6) the default VM is 64-bit.

PosterGenius for Mac available to beta users

Sign up to participate to our beta testing period and get your feet wet with PosterGenius for Mac

Eclipse 2010 Community Awards Winners Announced

PosterGenius was not the winner for the "Best RCP Application for 2010" but one of the finalists.

I want to congratulate:

• The people behind Tasktop Pro, the best RCP application for 2010, for the greate product they have create.
• Our development team, here at Scigen Technologies, for the more than 3 years of hard work that puts PosterGenius in hall-of-fame in eclipse community awards.
• The Bioclipse community. I'm really impressed by the whole Bioclipse project and RCP implementation.

Nebula Gallery widget in production

Nebula gallery widget usage in a commercial quality application:

Application: PosterGenius (http://www.postergenius.com)

Install PosterGenius on Linux with no tears

A simple step-by-step guide to install PosterGenius on Linux (Ubuntu)

First of all you have to download our .deb package. The package for the moment is available for internal purposes only. But if anyone out there wants to try our early release of PosterGenius for Linux please let me know.

PosterGenius for linux will be available for free. Stay tuned, we will make it available to the public very soon.

Download
Download .deb package and save it in your hard drive.

Launch gdebi installer
I suggest the more user-friendly gtk version. Start a ternimal and type

sudo gdebi-gtk

The package installer will follow:


Point to .deb package
Use installer's File menu and point to .deb package of PosterGenius

Select PosterGenius .deb package and click "Open"

Click "Install Package"

Click "Close"

Launch PosterGenius

PosterGenius entry is available at "Applications > Graphics > Postergenius".

PosterGenius Screenshots









This blog-post as poster

Download this article as poster or/and pdf print friendly format. Both was created with PosterGenius for Linux

Install PosterGenius on Linux with no tears - Poster (pdf)

Install PosterGenius on Linux with no tears - print friendly (pdf)

PosterGenius, finalist for the eclipse community awards 2010

PosterGenius has been selected as one of the three finalists for the Best RCP Application for the 2010 Eclipse Community Awards.

Eclipse Awards Finalists 2010

Regardless of whether we will win the contest or not we already feel winners. It's a great recognition for 3 years of really hard work for one of the best team i have work with ever.

Please let me introduce this team:

• Pavlos Moustakidis
  The man with the vision to simplify poster creation process
• Stavros Kounis
  This is me.
• Sakis Kotisis
  A kick ass java programmer that join us just after the first prototype of PosterGenius. Maybe the most talented programmer i have ever meet.
• Georgos Tsopouridis
  A non-programmer that can build eclipse rcps and plugins better and faster than everyone else. Is the never-tired part of our team.
• Stefanos Manolakis
  Our rookie that easily adapt it's skills from one technology to another. Is the man that do all the dirty jobs and clean up everything.

And last but not least:

• Evangelos Karageorgos
  Our designer, marketing leader, QA leader and typography guru. We hate him. Is our nightmare. He believes that anything designed in Photoshop can be implemented in GUI.

Finally i want to give some credits to:

• Eclipse Platform
  It was our choice from the beginning. Thanks to this great technology we have reach our goals. Is the platform we can rely on.
• Eclipse Community
  Several issues in the platform have been resolved upon our requests (in bugzilla).
• Nebula Team
  Nebula Gallery is heavily used in our product.

http://www.postergenius.com

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100305_awardsfinalists.php

http://www.eclipsecon.org/2010/sessions/?page=sessions&id=1589

The fastest and easiest way to create your conference poster: PosterGenius

PosterGenius, a powerful, user-friendly software application that helps you create your scientific posters in less than 10 minutes. PosterGenius has been designed by physicians, scientists and researchers for physicians, scientists and researchers and offers a workflow tailored to the needs of the busy academic and researcher who creates scientific posters.

Why PosterGenius is the best tool for the creation of your scientific posters.

1. It separates the content from the design of your poster. Therefore, it allows you to focus on your content, while the application automatically optimizes and manages the look and feel of the poster.
2. It’s easier and faster than any other software for the creation of scientific posters.
   
3. It takes your workflow to a whole new level with its unique features such as:

• the 100+ professionally designed templates,
• the optimal reading distance indicator,
• the image optimizer that automatically positions, scales and aligns your images and captions.
  

Get the free Trial Version.

1. To get the free Trial Version of PosterGenius, visit our Download page and click on the download link.
2. After the download finishes, follow the instructions on the page, in order to install the application.

My first real contribution

After more than 10 years using open source software i'm happy to be able to contribute something back to the community.

PosterGenius, a poster creation software where i'm part of the dev team, will be available for free to all Eclipse Con 2010 accepted posters.

A 90% price off, will be available to all EclipseCon 2010 attendees.

just my 2c

Scientific poster creation.

We have just launch videos that demonstrate the creation of scientific poster using PosterGenius and some software highlights.

Creating a scientific poster

See how easy is to create a scientific poster in few minutes.



Poster optimizer
"Fit" your content into your scientific poster area in on click



Professionally designed templates

Format your scientific poster with the 100+ professionally designed templates




More videos are available at PosterGenius YouTube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/postergenius

PosteGenius project

For the last 26 months i was working with a great team on PosterGenius Project.

PosterGenius is a desktop application specifically designed for the creation of scientific posters.

PosterGenius is an Eclipse RCP application that make use of EMF, SWT, XML, XSLT, Apache FO, Nebula Widgets. Nebula CollapsibleButtons are main part of applications GUI. Nebula Gallery control is used in many location.

PosterGenius was officially released at May 8 with the moto

"Scientific posters revisited"

Free trial is available for download at postergenius.com

Screens



Videos

Video demos are available at youtube postergenius channel

In less than 10 minutes

8th of May 2009, Scientific posters revisited

Decoupling with Adapters - The Adapter pattern

Interesting article that demonstrate Adapter pattern and its usage in Eclipse.

Summary

The adapter pattern is used extensively in Eclipse. The use of this pattern allows plug-ins to be loosely coupled, yet still be tightly integrated in the extremely dynamic Eclipse runtime environment. In this article, we show you how to use the adapter framework to make your own objects adaptable, and adapt other objects.

By Wayne Beaton, The Eclipse Foundation

Copyright © 2008 The Eclipse Foundation.

June 24, 2008

Debuging UI using picaso

The goal of Picasso is to provide a utility to help UI debugging. Picasso does this by painting the workbench in a way to aid debugging.

Better RCPs with Lotus Expeditor

Lotus Expeditor provides better Look 'n Feel

Before:
After:


Interesting features:

• Custom widgets. Lotus Expeditor provides a mechanism for applying a common style to the user interface of applications. It does so by supporting not only standard SWT controls but also a set of custom widgets for which you can extend the customization. If you use these custom widgets to build the user interface of your application, you get the added capability of reflecting the workbench style or theme in your application to ensure that it looks like a member of the suite of application offerings. You can also apply a static style to the widgets to give your application a look and feel that is different from the other application offerings, if desired.

• Rich text editor. The rich text editor enables your users to edit text through standard functions such as typing text, selecting fonts, and underlining. The rich text editor has the advantage of being completely configurable, manageable, and easily modified. It can be embedded in a Java application, provides a default UI (such as a tool bar), supports APIs for application development, and can extend an application's functions, such as handling events and contents.

• Spell checking. Applications can perform spell checking, but to do so, a series of dictionaries must be set. The four ways to check misspelled words are by using:
  • The dictionaries supported by the given locale
  • The dictionaries supported by the platform default locale
  • Given dictionaries
  • Given dictionaries and a customized user dictionary

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/library/expeditor-eclipse/

GEF - How to create a custom figure

The article "Display a UML Diagram using Draw2D" demostrates how to design custom figures

Eclipse RCP Book companion CD

For those readers who purchased a soft-copy of the book or lost the companion CD

that's me :-P

http://eclipsercp.org/book/cd.php

Setting heap size when "Run as Eclipse Application"

I have to put -Xmx128m as VM arguments in "Run Configuration Dialog"



Read more about setting java heap size

Tasktop tour

Tasktop Technologies created and leads Eclipse Mylyn, an open source tool that transforms the developer's workday by automatically focusing the development environment on the task at hand. To enable all knowledge workers to benefit from the dramatic productivity improvements cited by developers using Mylyn, Tasktop Technologies is developing the task-focused desktop. Tasktop also provides consulting services to companies extending their offerings to leverage Mylyn's Task-Focused User Interface.

http://tasktop.com/videos/2008-winter/tasktop-eclipse.html

Field Assist Example cvs

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ui.examples.fieldassist/Eclipse%20UI%20Examples%20Field%20Assist/

Interesting EMF webinar - What's New for Europa

This webinar will demonstrate the new features found in Modeling projects releasing with Europa, this year’s simultaneous release of Eclipse projects. From the new Java 5 and generics support in EMF, to the new UML2 Tools diagrams and enhancements in OCL and GMF, we will provide an overview of what’s new and exciting in Modeling followed by Q&A.

Total running time 1 hour, 01:28 minute

http://live.eclipse.org/node/278