Solving CentOS 7, Fedora Problems at Startup Wrong Layouts

02.02.2015 Here I describe some notable Linux distribution errors which can be corrected with the following startup options (1) and CSS changes (2). 1. Startup Problems There seems to be problems with CentOS 7  in general. If the application does not start correctly, e.g., the Bio7 window will not be shown then add the following … Read more

First Screenshot of Bio7 2.0 MacOSX

28.01.2015 I’m constantly working on the Linux and Mac version of Bio7 2.0 which caused some difficulties because of the OS specific functionalties of Bio7. However I was able to solve many mysteries and could even improve the GUI display (e.g., font size of the view menus) and behaviour of the embedded AWT components (e.g., … Read more

Bio7 GUI Building Options

20.08.2014 I recently integrated JDT as the default Java framework of Bio7 to edit Java for the next release. Just out of curiosity i tried to install the GUI development tool WindowsBuilder for Eclipse from the default update site to see if it works with Bio7 and JDT. The first tests were promising and i … Read more

New Look And Feel

23.06.2014 I was very unhappy with the default look and feel of my Rich Client Platform based on Eclipse 4.4 so i decided to work on a new custom CSS with gradients for Bio7. The nearly finished CSS (tested on Windows) is displayed below which corrects not only colours but also the different toolbar settings … Read more