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Proj-x Transfer v1.2.0 … come and get it!

Kelvin — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:50:18 +0000

Transfer v1.2.0 is available for download from here, please be aware that the new version requires you have the DLTK is installed.

UPDATE: Note that I developed, compiled and tested this release of Transfer with Eclipse 1.4.5 and PDT 2.1 available from here and it works! if you experience problems with Transfer and would like me to fix it, then you need to provide precise details on what your running and how I can recreate the problem, if you don’t, then your requests will be ignored.

So, please let me know if you have any problem, and don’t forget to leave precise details.

Proj-x Transfer fix

Kelvin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:38:36 +0000

I’ve finally had some free time to spend on fixing Transfer, it seems the problems were not caused by bugs, instead other plug-ins such as PDT (from v2 onwards) changed the way they’re implemented and started using the Eclipse DLTK (Dynamic Language Tool Kit) which meant Transfer no longer knew how to process requests from the new PHP Explorer (This was not a problem for me, as I use an older version of PDT).

Anyway, I will release a test version of Tranfer 1.2 shortly, note its not final, I intend to add more error checking and some default settings.

Please note the new version of Transfer required the DLTK be installed, I’ll add instructions for this when I release the test.

Eclipse losing track of files?

Kelvin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:11:45 +0000

One of the most annoying things about Eclipse is the way it manages files and will refuse to open anything which has been edited outside of the IDE, typically it will throw a ResourceException with the message showing “Resource is out of sync with the file system”.

This problem can be alleviated by either right clicking on the file and selecting “Refresh”, or if you find it happening frequently, Go to Preferences -> Workspace and enable the “Refresh Automatically” option, do note it appears Eclipse updates on a timer, not when you open the file, so it may take a while to detect the change. (You got a better method? or am I wrong? leave a comment and let me know).

Having problems with Eclipse 3.4.2 + Proj-X Transfer?

Kelvin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:55:19 +0000

Transfer is currently incompatible with Eclipse v3.4.2, there seems to be a problem where it registers its menu items and settings page. I’ll look into this as soon as I can, in the mean time please stick with v3.4.1 or remove Transfer until I can get this fixed.

Sites now running PHP5.3 Beta

Kelvin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:20:48 +0000

Apologies to anybody who had problems accessing the site in the past day or so, I’ve upgraded the server to PHP5.3 BETA, this will allow me to test namespaces etc.

My first attempt didn’t go so well, it seems MySQLND doesn’t play nicely at the moment (perhaps MySQL needs some separate configuration for this).

Proj-x Transfer v1.1.1 is now available

Kelvin — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:57:31 +0000

I’ve finally got some free time to update Proj-x Transfer, so these are the changes in version 1.1.0

Keyboard shortcuts now work in the Editor, what ever your working on will be Queued/Uploaded/Downloaded.
Added option to set PASV or ACTIVE transfer in the Project Properties.
Fixed remote permissions bug which caused the plugin to constantly generate “Access Denied” error’s and eventually crash.

The latest version can be downloaded from the Transfer homepage

as with all things Eclipse, getting the Editor Shortcuts was a little tricky, I’ll save that for a later post.

UPDATE: After testing the update at work I found the Editor shortcuts didn’t work with PDT, so I’ve made a fix for this and released it as v1.1.1.

My Eclipse Plugin.. Projx Transfer

Kelvin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:35:14 +0000

At work we’ve recently migrated from using the Nusphere PhpED IDE to Eclipse and PDT, the benefits offered by Eclipse are massive, not least its huge archive of available plug-ins.

The one thing I’ve desperately missed about Nusphere is the ability to right click a file and deploy it directly from the Project Explorer, this is about the only thing that I’ve not managed to find a reliable plug-in – So I decided to implement one myself, heres a sample screenshot

I’ve called it Projx Transfer, it integrates with Eclipse Project Explorer, each project can be transferred to different destinations via FTP, files and folders can be transferred by selecting Upload or Download from their context menu’s, additionally it allows items to be queued for bulk transfers.

You find more details and downloads at http://www.proj-x.org/eclipse-plugins/projx-transfer/, the source code is also available.

Compatibility between Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4

Kelvin — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:13:18 +0000

For anybody having plug-in compatibility issues between Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4, there may be a solution.

http://www.aptana.com/docs/index.php/Plugging_Aptana_into_an_existing_Eclipse_configuration#Eclipse_3.4_Instructions

(This is really for my own future reference )

Example code for Eclipse viewers

Kelvin — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:26:25 +0000

Recently I’ve been playing about with developing plug-ins for Eclipse, but it’s been 4 years since I wrote my last line of Java and I’ve been coding PHP ever since, so I’m having to completely re-learn the Java object model and Eclipse’s API.

The biggest obstacle has been finding decent learning material, there are lots of tutorials floating about on the web, but nothing beats having an abundance of simple examples to pull apart. So I place this link here for prosperities sake

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.jface.snippets/Eclipse%20JFace%20Snippets/org/eclipse/jface/snippets/

It leads to a wealth of examples for creating Viewers, SWT Controls and other stuff.