2) General purpose API added to SWT
that will enable CSS
I like this approach as it keeps SWT as lean as possible. The additions to SWT would work like this in my mind:
a) Have an SWT.Create event that would be called for widget creation
This allows the Styling/CSS framework to intercept these events (via a Display.addFilter(...) and do styling before they are presented to the user).
b) There needs to be some notion of id / class to widgets so you can target CSS styling if you want to
This can be done via the Styling/CSS framework on widget creation or handled internally by SWT somehow. All this stuff could be stored via setData(...)
c) PDE/Platform UI provide some type of pimp CSS editor that is some how "SWT aware" to make all this easy
That's at least how I picture things in my mind currently.
Once 3.4 is finally closed, I'm sure people will be excited to prototype this. I even hear a certain handsome gentlemen by the name of Matthew Hatem has some code kicking around.
Cheers,
~ Chris Aniszczyk
