Work Completed
- Got a simple demo application with a view and some small widgets working in Eclipse e4 and wrote a blog entry describing the steps to write an e4 application including using some of the new features such as css styling. I am hoping to expand on the demo after the second webinar which should cover some more advanced topics.
- The e4 webinar mainly covered running the e4 demos that are available on the web. I believe the next webinar which is this week will go into more details about the advanced features in e4 and what the designers are thinking about for e4 that is not in the system yet. There is a lot of functionality that has not been implemented and some sounds like it is still in the design phase (e.g. adding menus/menu items in 3.5 is done declaratively through the command framework, there is no equivalent in e4 yet).
- Started learning the MAEviz build system by replicating the build process on my desktop machine. Once the build is up on my desktop machine I will then start building with Eclipse 3.5. Some of the work involved re-writing the windows batch files as equivalent shell scripts for linux. This work would also allow us to use a linux box to build MAEviz in the future.
Work Planned
- Continue working with Eclipse e4
- Attend Eclipse e4 webinar
- Learn MAEviz build system and upgrade the build to use the new Eclipse 3.5
Comments
This week went as planned.