Re: [e4-dev] Declarative UI

[Steve Northover <Steve_Northover@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tab folders in SWT are programmed this
way to allow for tab folders with many pages.  Programmers didn't
have to create a composite per page and populate it up front with controls.

Generally speaking, it's not an issue
these days.  Gone are the dialogs with a billion confusing tabs.

Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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11/12/2008 01:32 PM

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Guess why I've chose it :-) I did the same you did
in UFaceKit.

Tom

Hallvard Trætteberg schrieb:
> Tom,
> 
> Tom Schindl wrote:
>>
>> This indeed looks nice. Can you by chance show me the XAML for
>> TabFolder/CTabFolder there you need to deal with references to
composite
>> because you pass them to CTabItem#setControl(), right?
> 
> TabFolder is an interesting case, since the SWT implementation is
a bit
> different from what I would consider the natural model. In SWT the
> content of all the tabs are direct children of the TabFolder, and
each
> TabItem references its content (usually a Composite) with a control
> property. In my (mental) model (the swtui.ecore file I sent in my
last
> posting) a TabFolder instead contains Tabs which are containers that
> contain other Controls. In the ecore model, a Tab extends
> TitledComposite, to inherit both the ability to contain Controls and
> have a title. BTW, GroupBox (Group in SWT) is another TitledComposite.
> 
> This is the advantage of having a slightly more abstract model than
> SWT's: We can make it feel more natural, while ensuring that the mapping
> is easy to code.
> 
> Hallvard
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