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

[Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Laurent,

great news indeed. Thanks a bunch for this work. In case you need a
bug, I opened https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532680.

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

Sounds great. In case you are using Gerrit, you can also upload a
Gerrit change with the POC.

Best regards, Lars

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Laurent Caron <laurent.caron@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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