Re: [e4-dev] how to contribute to toolkit model ?

[Hallvard Trætteberg <hal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > Will the XML even stick around after having instantiated the GUI?
> > You mean if the representation is "live", so you can change the GUI by
> > changing the representation, like you can with HTML+DOM+Javascript? I
> > thought that was a requirement?
>
> SWT has already done this work.

Some modifications of the GUI is easier to do on a generic 
representation like the XML/HTML DOM, e.g. copying a sub-tree. In 
addition, SWT is a bit restrictive since it doesn't have setters for all 
properties, in particular it doesn't allow changing the style bits.

> This is useful:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=260289

Thanks for the link! I keep discovering these bugzilla entries too late...

Hallvard