| [cdt-dev] Visual Editor and CDT GUIs |
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So, the Visual Editor Project recently released version 1.0, and I’ve been trying it out. Overall, I’ve been pretty impressed, but it in essence it can’t be used to work with the existing Eclipse and CDT GUIs because it’s unable to parse the original, hand-written code.
I am wondering if we should consider the notion of making any new GUIs VEP compatible wherever possible. This would make things theoretically faster/easier for us to create, and also easier for new developers to get up to speed modifying our GUIs.
Basically what this would mean is you would create your GUI as a single SWT Composite object in SWT, then use that in whatever parent object (e.g. dialog, property page, view, etc.) as necessary to keep the Eclipse infrastructure happy. This adds an additional layer to the code, but at the same time has its benefits by virtue of the VEP.
Thoughts?
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Chris Recoskie Software Designer IDE Frameworks Group Texas Instruments, Toronto
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