Cellular Automata on a 3D Globe

15.04.2014 One of the features of the next release of Bio7 is the possibility to run an ImageJ simulation (dynamic image data) georeferenced on the 3D globe with – and this is new – a default transparent color (see image with running “Game of Life” below). To run a simulation on a 3D globe with … Read more

Full JDT Support For The Next Release

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

R editor improvements for Bio7

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

Scene Builder Integration in Bio7

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

First Screenshot With Eclipse 4.4

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