Bug 63724 - [Custom Widgets] Outlook bar (palette)
Summary: [Custom Widgets] Outlook bar (palette)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: SWT (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Platform-SWT-Inbox CLA
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Keywords: helpwanted, triaged
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Reported: 2004-05-24 13:48 EDT by Xavier Méhaut CLA
Modified: 2018-07-10 14:12 EDT (History)
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Description Xavier Méhaut CLA 2004-05-24 13:48:47 EDT 
Hello,
It could be very nice to provide access to the Palette component provided by GEF
as basis component of SWT (it is an outlook bar-like component)
regards
Xavier
Comment 1 Grant Gayed CLA 2004-05-25 18:06:30 EDT 
I'm not familiar with the GEF Palette.  Can you provide a screenshot?
Comment 2 Xavier Méhaut CLA 2004-05-26 02:47:11 EDT 
Hi Grant,
I've found a screenshot at Instantiations (I'm not from this company) at :
http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/main.html . it is built above
GEF. It is the main component in the center of the view (layouts, composite,
Jface,...) . This component seems to already exists in GEF (maybe here : 
org.eclipse.gef.palette) . It could be good to extract this one and make it a
basis component for Eclipse. It is very useful
regards
Xavier
Comment 3 Grant Gayed CLA 2004-05-27 09:26:52 EDT 
I see, this is a custom widget built from swt components.  Aside from providing 
access to native widget capabilities, swt only implements custom widgets (eg.- 
CLabel, CTabFolder, etc.) based on the eclipse workbench's needs, usually for 
branding purposes.  So for this component to move from gef to swt would require 
a request from eclipse-UI.

In the meantime clients wishing to use this custom widget can use it via gef.
Comment 4 Xavier Méhaut CLA 2004-05-27 09:40:14 EDT 
You can't ask for people to download completely GEF for just only use one
component, a VERY useful widget. I think that this widget should provided as
basis widget. Is it a SWT widget or a JFace? I don't know. But It is a user
requirement nevertheless ;)
Comment 5 Grant Gayed CLA 2009-08-28 14:22:09 EDT 
Moving report to triage, see http://www.eclipse.org/swt/triage.php
for more info about swt bug triaging.
Comment 6 Eric Williams CLA 2017-07-28 10:04:40 EDT 
Given that this is an enhancement, patches are welcome. :)