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Re: [nebula-dev] Convert XViewer to use org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime
Sounds good!

Cheers,
Emil


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How about this:

I will move it to incubation now.
I will make a few announcement on the list and in the newsgroup. If there are no objections within say, three months, we remove it completely, otherwise: it stays in incubation as an unmanaged widget and we will remove it from the examples view and from the website.





On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Emil Crumhorn <emil.crumhorn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dirk, 

As the developer of CalendarCombo, I agree. 

I was looking at the DateTime widget and apart from look and feel the CalendarCombo has been phased out. I'm happy about that because over the years it developed issues that I could no longer fix (X didn't work on Linux, Y didn't work on Mac, etc). I've tried plenty of times to work around things but in the end it's never worked as some API just doesn't do what I want. 

Considering it's lived for more than 10 years I'd say it's had a very good run!

Wim, maybe we should nuke it altogether? I think people should try to go for working cross-platform widgets than those that only work on Windows (nowadays). What do you think?

Regards,
Emil


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Dirk Fauth <dirk.fauth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

IMHO the CalendarCombo should be put to the Incubation project to find its place to rest in peace. Compared to org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime, there seems to be no more additional value by using CalendarCombo.

I might be wrong, but the value that was added by CalendarCombo in the past doesn't exist anymore. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Greez,
Dirk



On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Donald,

Thanks for the update. 

CalendarCombo is in the release project, it is created by Emil and you and Emil were looking after it [1].

I also understand that Emil was not too happy about CalendarCombo, exactly for the reasons you mention now. 

Should we demote CalendarCombo and put it in the Incubation project?

Regards,

Wim 




On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Dunne, Donald G <donald.g.dunne@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

XViewer and it’s tests were using the Nebuala CalendarCombo which does not work on GTK and thus Linux.  See note at the bottom of http://eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/calendarcombo/calendarcombo.php for more information.

                                                                                                                                                                        

Planning on switching to the org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime which supports everything but a clear button, which XViewer can implement itself.

 

Bugzilla created at: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=396228

 

 

Don


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