Robert Wloch

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Eclipse Mousefeed Plugin Merged With Marketplace Plugin

By robert, on March 13th, 2013, 1,661 views

My fork of the Mousefeed Plugin has been merged with the Mousefeed Plugin available in Eclipse Marketplace. Please switch your update site to benefit from the most complete Mousefeed version. . . . → Read More: Eclipse Mousefeed Plugin Merged With Marketplace Plugin

Estimating Costs Of Unit Testing With Qt/C++

By robert, on January 18th, 2013, 839 views

Recently I joined a development team where a Qt/C++ thin client application is being developed. In December we decided to spend some time on improving unit test coverage. I did a PERT estimate and want to share my classification and estimation process hoping it will proof useful for you, too. . . . → Read More: Estimating Costs Of Unit Testing With Qt/C++

Useful Opera Browser Extensions For Improved Privacy

By robert, on November 7th, 2012, 2,574 views

My favorite browser since 1999 received an update and I gave some extensions a try. I got to say that I like three of them the most: Ghostery, AdBlock, and YouTube AdsFree. In that blog post I’ll share my experiences and conclusion with you. . . . → Read More: Useful Opera Browser Extensions For Improved Privacy

A Named QStateMachine

By robert, on October 15th, 2012, 2,625 views

Developing UIs is a complex business. State machines can make your life easier when properly used. The Qt toolkit provides a simple State Machine Framework which neatly integrates with Qt widgets, signals and slots and the property system. However, it lacks support of naming states and the state machine and that’s not so nice when in need of debugging a state machine. So, in that post I’ll introduce you to my NamedStateMachine and NamedState as well as a NamedStateMachineInspector that you can use in unit tests or wherever you like. . . . → Read More: A Named QStateMachine

Code less create more (or less the same)

By robert, on July 7th, 2012, 3,366 views

Today I prepared a “Hello World” app for three different UI toolkits: Swing, SWT and C++/Qt. Once finished I was surprised to find the Qt version the most slick. Alright, I didn’t need a header file yet, but still, it’s the implementation code that counts. Qt just still appears totally awesome and superior nowadays. . . . → Read More: Code less create more (or less the same)

Announcing: Mousefeed Plug-in 2.0.0

By robert, on February 17th, 2012, 8,713 views

My Mousefeed plug-in fork has been merged with another fork available in the Eclipse Marketplace. . . . → Read More: Announcing: Mousefeed Plug-in 2.0.0

Eclipse Tips & Tricks: Detail Formatter

By robert, on January 28th, 2012, 10,055 views

For most of the types in the Variables view you can see a reasonable toString() output below the variables list. However, many types don’t have a type specific implementation of toString(). That’s why the variables view prints you some meaningless default text with a hashcode for such variables. But did you know that you can change that by defining a custom toString() implementation that’s used by the variables view at runtime? Read on! . . . → Read More: Eclipse Tips & Tricks: Detail Formatter

Eclipse Diff Util For Creating Dropins Folder Contents

By robert, on November 24th, 2011, 3,798 views

Personally I prefer the drop-ins folder for extending my Eclipse with new plug-ins and features. Having all your favorite extensions in one place separated from the default Eclipse contents is great. However, extracting all the necessary files has always been a pain so I created the Eclipse Installations Diff Util to help me with this task and I’d like to share it with you today. . . . → Read More: Eclipse Diff Util For Creating Dropins Folder Contents

10,000 GDI objects ought to be enough for anybody

By robert, on August 21st, 2011, 7,992 views

The famous quote by Bill Gates, “640K ought to be enough for anybody”, stating that nobody would ever need more memory in a computer still is a good laugh. (Bill has denied making this remark, but the rumors say he did say that.) Anyways, about 20 years after that quote was born I was confronted . . . → Read More: 10,000 GDI objects ought to be enough for anybody

Eclipse Democamp Dresden Summary

By robert, on June 22nd, 2011, 4,420 views

Dresden, Jun. 21st 2011 – There have been some really nice presentations at the democamp in Dresden again.

Jan Köhnlein from itemis AG started with a demonstration of Xtext 2.0. Xtext is a language development framework that you can use to create your own programming language or domain-specific language (DSL). It generates an editor . . . → Read More: Eclipse Democamp Dresden Summary