Bio7 3.0 Released

27.03.2019 A new release of Bio7 is available which is built upon Eclipse 4.11 and the latest Java OpenJDK. This new version comes bundled with OpenJDK 12, supports the dynamic compilation of Java 11 and fixes several annoying bugs on MacOSX (e.g., shutdown crashes). The R interface has been improved and the R-Shell now updates … Read more

Eclipse ImageJ Plugin Update Released

12.02.2019 I released a new version of the ImageJ plugin which comes bundled with a feature complete ImageJ macro editor and an embedded Eclipse ImageJ interface. Screenshot (Windows, Eclipse Darkest Dark Theme) Screenshot Code Completion (Windows, Eclipse Darkest Dark Theme) Release notes: Updated ImageJ version 1.52m (1.52m12) Improved the ImageJ canvas (Plot canvas and Image … Read more

The Road to OpenJDK 11

22.11.2018 it was a long road to the Java 11module system because a lot of bugs and settings had to be fixed for the next release of Bio7 which will be bundled with the OpenJDK as the default Java Runtime. With Java 11 finally scaling of JavavFX, Swing and AWT components inside of Bio7 is … Read more

Transfer data from R to Python with PyRserve and Bio7

29.08.2018 Recently I discovered the package PyRserve for Python which connects Python with R using Rserve. This is extremly useful because Bio7 already integrates Rserve and has special GUI interfaces available to transfer, e.g.,  data from spreadsheets, ImageJ image and selection data (also georeferenced),  Java simulation data, etc. With this new Rserve connection this data … Read more

Bio7 2.9 Released

16.08.2018 A new release of Bio7 is available. The new Bio7 2.9 release comes with a plethora of new R features and bugfixes. Release Notes: General: Based on Eclipse 4.8 Improved the dark theme and the layout of the dark theme in many places All editor font colors are now changed automatically to default optimized … Read more