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

Hi Laurent,

Sure.


Best regards,

Wim Jongman

*Sent from a mobile device. Pardon my brevity.


From: nebula-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx <nebula-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Laurent Caron <laurent.caron@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:26:33 PM
To: Nebula Dev
Subject: Re: [nebula-dev] Anyone created already a FloatingText widgets for SWT?
 
Hi,

Well first of all the bad news: the code seems to be lost by my previous company...

And the good news: I've decided to implement a POC. I've just started the code.

It is ok if I post the source code of the first preview ? (1 class + 1 snippet)

Laurent

2018-03-20 8:25 GMT+01:00 Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Great to hear, Laurent. Looking forward to your update.  :-)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Laurent Caron <laurent.caron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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