Nicolas Richeton

The Eclipse Nebula project has now a new home page, based on SWT’s widget page, with screenshots and direct access to snippets.

This page now conforms to the guidelines for incubation projects. With the upcoming rename of all nebula download, Nebula will be fully conforming at last.

On the Gallery widget side, I’ve recently fixed bugs 197959 and 197952 both submitted by Richard Michalsky who has already contributed 4 patches for bugs and enhancements. Thanks Richard.
I’ve also started to write some technical documentation on the Nebula wiki. See Nebula Gallery Status (work in progress).

Two new Nebula committers have been elected lately, so stay tuned for more updates and widgets.

Sharemedia 0.2.2 was released yesterday and now comes with a Google Albums plugin. This plugin enables read access to picasa web albums and online photo browsing, even with the OpenGL (3D) plugin.

How to install :
1 – Download the new release form sourceforge
2 – Start Sharemedia
3 – Go in Updates->New features-> New remote Site
4 – Add http://sharemedia.free.fr/update
5 – Select Finish
6 – Sharemedia will search the update site and find 2 plugins : Google Albums and OpenGL Viewer. Select the one you want and push finish. The new features are available immediately.

This version also includes several bugs fixes and speed improvements.

You may have to rebuild your local library. See previous news on Sharemedia project page. Update system seems broken at the moment, please download the binary packages.

Update : OpenGL plugin doesn’t work. Strange … I’ll fix it this evening.

Update 2 : OpenGL plugin fixed.

Happy testing.

Nuxeo 5.1.0M3 does not support Java 6 at all and displays a 404 error page when it is set as the default runtime. Strange. This is the first app I see that simply doesn’t work with this java version.

Anyway, switching to jdk 1.5 fixes the problem.

UPDATE : The problem seems to lie in JBoss 4.04 which is packaged with Nuxeo.

The following Gallery widget issues were resolved this week : bugs 195415, 195443 and
195439. These were only small changes but they were the first patches provided by users other than me. I hope to see more and more apps using this widget to diplay pictures, projects or files.

I also updated my Gallery examples page with a new screenshot and a screencast. This screencast shows several features of Gallery widget : real time items resizing, auto margins, drop shadows, multiple item selection, groups and 2 items renderers.