Re: [e4-dev] CSS Editor & Contact Demo

[Angelo zerr <angelo.zerr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

Thank a lot for your answer. I believe that myy idea about CSS Editor
is not the same than you. Indead my CSS Editor idea is to manage CSS
stylesheet for an UI instance (and not for a metadata UI). Imagine you
have an UI instance with SWT Text with an id 'MyId'. The
autocompletion will show Text[@id='MyId'].

To retrieve the CSS properties supported by SWT Text, the CSS editor
will use the CSS Engine instance (So the CSS engien must support this
features). The CSS Editor will manage an instance of CSSEngine as
model and not an EMF model. IHMO I think it will be very helpfull to
have autocmpletion with ID, properties of Widget for an UI instance.
Imagine you have the Eclipse IDE, it's very difficult to know the ID
for each widget. If you have CSS Editor wich show autocmpletion with
the IDs widgets which compose the Eclipse IDE, I think it can be very
helpfull to write CSS stylessheets. More user could see the result of
the apply styles as soon as the user type some content styles.

Hope you will understand my explanation and the idea will please you.

Angelo

2010/7/18 Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Providing an E4-CSS-Editor is a very important thing and something we
> should target in the next release cycle.
>
> IMHO the current problem with CSS is that there's no formal definition
> which Attributes one can set.
>
> My proposal would be to use xText to write an e4-CSS-Editor (I've been
> thinking about this already a bit but for 4.0 the model tooling took all
> my time) which would automatically give us an EMF-Model describing our
> CSS-stuff whether we also use this model at runtime is something we can
> decide on later.
>
> Tom
>
> Am 18.07.10 15:03, schrieb Angelo zerr:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I don't know if it's planned but I think it should be very cool if E4
>> will provide a CSS Editor to manage CSS stylesheet content for the UI.
>> I think it should be cool if Contact Demo could add/edit new CSS
>> stylesheet. The user edit the CSS stylesheet, and the CSS editor
>> provides autompletion which give him for Text widget the CSS
>> properties supported. When user type some CSS styles content, the CSS
>> engine is refrehed and styles are applyed at runtime.I had created a
>> basic CSS editor into TK-UI
>> http://tk-ui.sourceforge.net/user-guide/cssengine.html based on
>> StyledText.
>>
>> Imagine you have a SWT designer, you click on SWT Widget and you go to
>> the CSS editor. The CSS editor give you the CSS property of the widget
>> into the Property View. To manage that CSS engine must manage too
>> supported properties into SWTElement.
>>
>> I think it should be cool if Contact Demo could add a basic CSS editor
>> into the demo. You will able to edit the CSS, change the CSS by typing
>> some content and CSS engine will be refreshed at runtime. I think for
>> the demo it should be cool. What do you think about that?
>>
>> Regards Angelo
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