Chris Aniszczyk's (zx) diatribe

So, I’m working on a quick demo of RCP for some students… I like to use the RCP Browser example alot because it is simple and easy to modify. So I was digging through the code and I noticed this snippet:

/**
* The easter egg action.
* See the corresponding command and key binding in the plugin.xml,
* and how it’s registered in createBrowser.
*/
private Action easterEggAction = new Action() {
{
setActionDefinitionId(
IBrowserConstants.COMMAND_PREFIX + “easterEgg”); };
public void run() {
browser.execute(“window.confirm(‘You found the easter egg!’)”);
}
};

Digging further, I found the way to invoke the action was via CTRL+SHIFT+E

Anyone know of any other Eclipse easter eggs out there?

I just topped off an EMF article which will be included in the new EclipseReview magazine (should be available @ EclipseCON). It should give a good introduction to EMF and especially the technologies surrounding EMF. Here’s an outline of what I covered:

• Introduction to EMF
• EMF Components
• EMF Core
• EMF.Edit
• EMF.CodeGen
• Development with Ecore
• Defining your model
• Generate your code
• EMF Code Snippets
• Creating EMF objects
• Observing EMF objects
• Persisting EMF objects
• Dynamic EMF (Reflective API)
• EContentAdapter – Listening to your whole model
• ChangeRecorder – Recording changes to your model
• Introducing EMFT
• EMFT-Transaction
• EMFT-Validation
• EMFT-CDO (net4j)
• EMFT-Query
• EMFT-OCL
• Introducing GMF
• Conclusion

Oh, I finally moved to blogger 🙂