On 04/08/2014 08:37 AM, suryakant bhagat wrote:
Hi,
I am currently working on an application which has been built using the eclipse platform
as the base. The application requires to be enhanced so that the new views developed using "org.eclipse.ui.views" extension point are shown and hidden using some crawling animation.
This kind of questions is about pure-UI, JDT-dev is about Java development tools. So I've forwarded it to platform-ui mailing-list.
I would like to know
1. Is it possible to achieve the same using the eclipse platform? Say, by modifications in the source code of eclipse?
I tend to believe that yes, it is possible; but I can't tell how...
2. By some third party tools or plugins which can be used to achieve the animation effect?
The Nebula project contains a component which allows to animate some SWT widgets. It's called CWT
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula_CWT_Animation and
http://blog.richeton.com/swt-animation-toolkit/ . However, I'm not aware of a recent activity on this project, so if you use it, you'll probably have to remove some dust and fix some bugs there.
But since Nebula is a welcoming project, it shouldn't be a problem:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula/New_Contributions#Patches_with_a_signed_CLA
HTH