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Re: [nebula-dev] Anyone created already a FloatingText widgets for SWT?
Hi Lars,

First of all I'm happy you enjoyed the widgets... And happy that you it gives you new ideas for RCP Applications!

I worked on this kind of widget in my previous company, as a POC that was unfortunately not used in production. The tool took 2 parameters: a label and a text widget.The animation started when the text widget had focus.
The code was not very clean but it was functionnal.

I have to contact my former colleagues to check if this work could be open sourced... Because it was not used, I do not think that it will be a problem.

Please stay tuned,

Laurent


2018-03-19 13:19 GMT+01:00 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Hello, my fellow Nebula developers,

Looking at the awesome new editions from Laurent to the Nebula library
(many thanks to Laurent for that) triggered a desire for a new SWT
widget. ;-)

Did someone in this group already created a "FloatingText" widget? In
such a widget the message hint in the text fields animates to the top
of the input field as soon as the user gives focus to it.

This is heavily used in Android. See
https://www.androidhive.info/2015/09/android-material-design-floating-labels-for-edittext/
or an example video. IMHO it creates a very nice experience for users
as it allows very condense UIs. Eclipse UIs could benefit quite a bit
from that in my opinion.

My current (lame) implementation is a compound composite wrapping a
label and a text field and moving the content of the text field to the
label once the user gives focus to the text field.  I'm happy to share
it, but it is really trivial and misses the animation.

Did someone already created such a FloatingText" widget? If not would
my trivial widget interesting for Nebula, maybe as a starting point
for something more advanced? If yes, could you share your
implementation?

Best regards, Lars


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