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Re: [e4-dev] New Sash handling
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Very nice. Performance of perspective switching is noticably faster. No more sash blinking...
Stefan
>
> I've just committed a version of the 'non composite' based sash layout
> mechanism described in bug 317849.
>
> This is a significant change and I fear it may well affect some of the
> other components (XWT, Tom's tooling)...
>
> The main change in the model is that the result of rendering an MPSC is a
> 'widget' that is actually an SWT Rectangle (its 'bounds' in the old
> widget).
>
> So far everything looks fine to me barring a single layout issue when
> un-splitting stacks.
>
> It's main new feature is that you can place the cursor at the intersection
> of multiple sashes and drag both at once...
>
> The real feature is that it's actually being model based...the layout
> works directly against the UI Model's elements, leading to much stabler
> code due to no synchronization issues between the model and SWT's
> SashForm. This means that no matter how complex a sub-structure of sashes
> you have the widget hierarchy will be only two widgets deep, the widget
> using the new "SashLayout" and its leaf widgets (at whatever level they
> are in the sash structure). This should lead to much smoother layout
> characteristics...
>
> Eric
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