Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT style documentation

[Eric Williams <ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,

On 08/21/2018 03:34 PM, Leo Ufimtsev wrote:
> I had the same thought... a while ago.
>
> We don't have anything that defines the style officially in SWT 
> documentation afaik.
> I think I started to define "correct" style based on the existing SWT 
> code, but noticed SWT's style was not consistent across the codebase.

This is what I am trying to pin down, at least on some level. Otherwise 
it will end up just defaulting to what each individual committer prefers.


> Then I tried to make a code formatter based on a formatter that was used 
> by the SWT forerunners, this thing is fairly close to what we want:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=472222
> But still has some quirks if I recall correctly and didn't gain traction.

Ah yes, I remember this. Might not be a bad time to resurrect this project.

Eric


> On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 3:22 PM Eric Williams <ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I've been spending some time updating and writing SWT documentation on
>     the wiki page.
>
>     I was wondering, is there an existing article somewhere that outlines
>     things like code style/comments, naming conventions, etc.? If so,
>     please
>     point it out as I'd like to incorporate some of it into my efforts.
>
>     Thanks,
>
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