The original xswt design always required the x:children node so that this ambiguity couldn't exist.  I removed that requirement when I realized that the syntax didn't actually clarify anything nearly all of the time.  It simply added line noise to read past and keystrokes to type.

-Dave Orme

On Nov 7, 2008 5:33 AM, "Ed Merks" <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David,

Comments below.

David Orme wrote: > > A node name is first converted to a setter.  If we can't find a method by th...

That's something that struck me superficially looking at XAML.  I.e., they're "just" using class names as the element names where it's more usual to use feature/property names for the elements.   Of course for attributes, people always expect feature/property names, but for elements often people are surprised that the element name isn't a type name.  That becomes more obvious when the same type of object can play a role in more than one feature.  Of course if you have a single containment feature (as in window parenting), you don't have this problem and it seems quite natural to use types for element names, especially when it allows you to avoid using "xsi:type" or defining a plethora of substitution group elements to avoid xsi:type...

> > This works nearly all the time. > > But to create a Text inside a Group becomes a problem since...

This is like xsi:type I assume.  Think of how you'd do this in JSON.  It's important to have this information early...

> >   <x:children> >     <text x:style="BORDER"> >   </x:children> > </group> > > -Dave Orme >> >> O...

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This works nearly all the time.

But to create a Text inside a Group becomes a problem since Group has setText().

To handle that rare case, XSWT has an <x:children> meta-node.  So you can write:

<group>
  <layout x:class="fillLayout">
  <x:children>
    <text x:style="BORDER">
  </x:children>
</group>

-Dave Orme

On Nov 6, 2008 4:25 PM, "Yves YANG" <yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One question on your code: how do you make the difference between property "layout" and child "label"?

 

yves

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Sent: jeudi 6 novembre 2008 18:11

To: E4 developer list Subject: Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Fw: Declarative UI roundup?

  Since I won't ask someone to do something I won't myself do, :-) here's a slightly-enhanced Hel...

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Ed- is there a JSON marshaller for EMF objects yet?

-Dave Orme

On Nov 6, 2008 6:47 PM, "åé" <fyaoxy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2 points: an UI declaration, and a thought.
1.an UI declaration:
above sample can be like this:

@layout: fill;
label: "hello, world"; text{style: BORDER; layoutData: "grow"}

Huge simple?  if yes, again:

@layout: "fill";
@StyleSheet{
       text{ style: SINGLE, BORDER;}
};
@forms: true;

section{
       @id: loginSection;
       sectionStyle: ExpandableComposite.TITLE_BAR;
       CompositeSeparator:NONE;
       text: çåçç;
       layoutData: "center";
       composite{
               @id: sectionClient;
               layout: "wrap 3", "[][250:pref:400,fill][]", "[]5[]";
               label: æçæåèäï;
               text { @id: certFile; text: ""; }
               button { @id: browse; text: éææä(&B)...; style: PUSH; }

               label: æçåçï;
               text { @id: password; text: ""; style: PASSWORD; }
               button { @id: login; text: "çåçç(&L)   "; style: PUSH; }
       }
       client: @sectionClient;
}

2, a thought: at this time, in the world, the most question is not can
you do. instead, just be: How and what make better.Yes? like David
style, I do answer, sure.:)

Best! qinxian

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