Marcel Austenfeld 18.02.2014 It was always a goal to integrate a powerful Java editor in Bio7. The current default Java editor of Bio7 is a custom editor with a set of tools to ease the creation of valid Java files and enables the compilation of Java classbodies and regular Java classes dynamically. However the editor lacks many … Read more
30.01.2014 For the next release of Bio7 based on Eclipse 4.4 an improvement of the R editor for a much better editing experience of R scripts will be available. The integrated editor itself is built bottom-up (based upon an Eclipse editor editor template) although there a great editor frameworks (DLTK) or frameworks to develop programming … Read more
11.12.2013 The JavaFX team recently announced the availability of a OpenSource Scene Builder API (“JavaFX Scene Builder Kit”) to integrate the Scene Builder in a custom application (e.g. in an RCP application). Reading this blog entry about a Netbeans integration i was tempted to integrate the SceneBuilder in my application, too. So i started to … Read more
05.11.2013 Today i tried Bio7 1.7.1 with the new Eclipse 4.4M3 platform and it didn’t look bad. There are some minor UI bugs/defects and missing implementations (detached views, e.g.) but i’m quite confident that these bugs will be resolved soon by the Eclipse team. At all this is huge improvement to 4.3 which was not … Read more
15.10.2013 Finally i released Bio7 1.7.1 for MacOSX. This release is bundled with a Java Runtime Environment and the latest R version (3.0.2) for MacOSX. For the plot functionality eventually XQuartz has to be installed (if not already installed!). Please note the installation requirements at the bottom of the page. Here are some screenshots for … Read more