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Re: [nebula-dev] New control submission


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Chris Gross <schtoo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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08/07/2006 08:27 PM

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The design and the API of the CompositeTable is definitely interesting.  
I'm not 100% convinced on it myself but I think its definitely
worthwhile for Nebula.

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-Chris

David J. Orme wrote:
>> We're now ready to start reviewing contributions! I'm going to
>> forward the older emails so we can start the discussion and the vote.
>>
>> First, here's David's submission below.
>>
>> I'm familiar the CompositeTable. The other contributions look
>> interesting. My only concern is the dependencies. Dave, do these
>> widgets require JFace? Do they depend on any databinding or ve
>> libraries?
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying.
>
> CompositeTable depends only on SWT.
>
> DayEditor depends only on CompositeTable and SWT.
>
> MonthEditor depends only on SWT.
>
> There are data binding classes for each of the above.  They follow a
> similar architecture to JFace viewers: they depend on both the widget
> and on data binding which in turn depends on JFace.  These probably
> should be moved to Nebula along with the widgets, but as was suggested
> elsewhere, they should be kept in their own plugin/project.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Orme
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Chris
>>
>> David J. Orme 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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