Re: [gef-dev] Zest FX UI contribution

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Today I had some time to putting together a first API Design for Viewer 2.0.

You can read about it at
http://tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2014/07/24/jface-viewers-in-a-java8-world-part-1-listviewer/

I'm in the very early design stages and are trying out things so the
final design might look completely different.

Tom

On 08.07.14 11:22, Tom Schindl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yeah the paradigm is ok and I have already thought about different APIs
> multiple times (even implemented for customers).
> 
> I'm in the process to define such an API as part of e(fx)clipse although
> there's no source yet available in the repo. Once I have something I'll
> post an update so that you can get an idea ;-)
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 08.07.14 11:19, Ujhelyi Zoltán wrote:
>> You are right, the hard SWT dependency is the killer here. :) The JFace API itself is not good...
>>
>> I will do some research about alternative patterns already used (I am not confortable with designing an entirely new paradigm here ;) ).
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback,
>> Zoltán
>> -- Zoltán Ujhelyi
>> https://www.inf.mit.bme.hu/en/members/ujhelyiz
>>
>> Fault Tolerant Systems Research Group
>> Budapest University of Technology and Economics
>>
>> On 2014.07.08., at 11:13, Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> In summary, I guess, JFace Viewers API support is still not a strict requirement, but I would have troubles designing a different API that is still at least as good for creating the displayable models.
>>>
>>> JFace would drag in SWT and isn't GEF4 to be widget toolkit neutral?
>>>
>>> Beside that I think the JFace-API shows is age in it's API:
>>>
>>> * useage of Array-Types (=> you can not generify it completely no
>>>  matter how many GOSC projects you setup)
>>>
>>> * No SAM-Types wouldn't you want to write a label-provider like this in
>>>  Java8
>>>
>>>  Viewer<Person> v = new Viewer<>();
>>>  v.setTextLabelProvider( (o) -> o.name );
>>>
>>> * Hard SWT-Dependency
>>>
>>> * (I could go on with more :-)
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>>
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