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[nebula-dev] Help Wanted: Windowbuilder and Nebula
Hi,

Some of the Nebula widgets are supported in windowbuilder, but not all of them. 

I have contacted Eric Clayberg (WB Project lead) to discuss how we could fix this.

It appears that there is already a framework in place to incorporate the Nebula widgets. Eric has asked if someone from the Nebula community could help the Windowbuilder project to achieve this. 

So if you want to help out with this effort, please contact me directly and we can get this going. 

Please see part of the conversation I had with Eric below [1].

Best regards,

Wim

[1]

Wim,

Nice to hear from you.

I am the co-lead of the Nebula project. I wonder if we can do something to integrate the Nebula widgets into Windowbuilder.

Actually, we already have a fair amount of Nebula integration already in WB. Prior to open sourcing WB, we actually shipped the Nebula jars with WB and had those widgets show up in a category in the WB palette. Once the project moved to Eclipse, the Eclipse IP folks told us that we could not ship those jars anymore. We did keep the Nebula support in place however, so, if you add the nebula jars to your project classpath, the Nebula palette should show up in WB as shown here...



The actual Nebula support code in WB can be found here:


...and the palette definition itself is here...


...and most of the widget attributes are defined in XML files found here...

I was thinking of some kind of automatic discovery process or a special way of advertising the widgets to Windowbuilder. Do you have any thoughts on this?

I have not tried loading the Nebula widgets into WB in quite awhile, but I hope it still works (if not, we need to fix that).

Going forward, it would be great to get someone on the Nebula side involved to help maintain the WB integration code as well. Aside from the few widgets that need complex layout behavior (like tables with columns), integrating a new widget is very simple and just involves adding/tweaking XML files. Lots of examples exist for all of the current widgets.

Regards,

-Eric

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