Re: [nebula-dev] New control submission

["Emil Crumhorn" <emil.crumhorn@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just joined this list now that Nebula got accepted (very cool! congrats).

If it's any help, I've written quite a few custom SWT widgets (as calendar was mentioned, see attached picture). In particular:

I wrote a complete custom Calendar widget for a piece of software (and licensed it to myself so I could do whatever I wanted with it), and it "hooks" into a combo (with the combo look and feel intact) and works pretty much exactly like the MS Outlook one. Same functionality and same look and feel (even with skins). The only thing that it doesn't do that the Outlook calednar does is the "holding your left mouse down on the month" feature to pop up a little month selector sub-window. I didn't even know that existed when I wrote it so I overlooked it. 

In any case, it's custom, doesn't use any SWT widgets except the canvas and some buttons. It's been professionally QA'd and tested on Windows, Mac, Linux, and works on all platforms (although Windows/Mac was main focus). I've attached a screenshot of it (windows silver skinned). I even had a bug in SWT pushed through and fixed with the help of Steve Northrover with non-modal shells stealing parent shell focus when clicked, just for this widget.

Another widget I wrote was a GANTT chart with resizing, moving, coloring, 3D effects on bars, dependencies, zoom in/out etc. That one needs a bit of code-cleaing however, but just thought I'd let you and the group know. Same deal as above, works on all OS's. 

And finally, I wrote a widget that works exactly like the bottom left button nav in Outlook, and colors itself correctly depending on windows skin and so on. Also QA'd and tested on all platforms. It's resizable in the same way, basically it's an exact look and feel copy. You'd be hard pressed to tell the difference if they were side by side except for the menu popups which have Outlooks typical icon background column for Outlook.

So, just wanted to offer that. They're all widgets I wish existed already as they're so "popular" in a way (especially the calendar). I attached a screenshot of the calendar, can attach screenshots of the others if they're of interest.

My background is pure UI SWT/JFace coding for various companies over the last 5 years. I also have a few sourceforge projects that pertain to SWT.

Emil

On 5/18/06, David J. Orme <djo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Taking the contribution process steps from the web site in reverse order:

3) The controls I am contributing to Nebula have already passed the
Eclipse IP process because they were developed as a part of work on the
Eclipse Platform project's data binding framework entirely within the
Eclipse IP guidelines.  I am the sole committer on those controls and my
IP paperwork is up to date.

2) I am already a committer on Eclipse Platform and Visual Editor and my
IP paperwork is up to date with the Eclipse Foundation.

1) The controls:

a) CompositeTable.  Is an SWT table control natively supporting in-place
editing, custom row layouts like rows with two lines similar to a
checkbook register and much more.  It is fully virtual--it only creates
graphical controls for data it can actually display and only requests
data that it can currently display.  It is designed to integrate nicely
with the Eclipse Visual Editor.  Without adding any special support to
VE, you can edit CompositeTable objects graphically today.

b) DayEditor.  This is a graphical calendar control similar to Outlook's
or PalmOS's day or work week view.  It supports laying out events that
overlap in time, all-day events, and when driven using JFace data
binding supports events that span multiple days.  It can display one day
column, two day columns, n day columns--as many as will fit on the
screen comfortably.  This work builds on and extends CompositeTable.

c) (coming soon): MonthEditor.  Like the DayEditor, but
displaying/editing a whole month at a time.  This work builds on and
extends CompositeTable.

The code:

Repository: :extssh:<username>@ dev.eclipse.org:/home/eclipse
Project: org.eclipse.jface.examples.databinding
Packages: org.eclipse.jface.examples.databinding.compositetable.*


Regards,

Dave Orme
Visual Editor Project lead

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