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Re: [wb-dev] Project meta data is out of date for tools.windowbuilder

mrrussell@xxxxxxx (Mark Russell) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:41:41 GMT

I fixed this

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 12:00 AM, portal on behalf of emo <emo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eric,
Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation
Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/). The following problems were found
with this project's meta-data:

* The date for release "1.3.0" is in the past, but the release is not
marked as completed. If it is completed, it should be marked as completed;
if it has been postponed, it should be given a new target date.

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[wb-dev] Project meta data is out of date for tools.windowbuilder

emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:00:11 GMT

Eric,
Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation
Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/).  The following problems were found
with this project's meta-data:

* The date for release "1.3.0" is in the past, but the release is not
marked as completed. If it is completed, it should be marked as completed;
if it has been postponed, it should be given a new target date.

Re: [wb-dev] Extensibility docs?

konstantin.scheglov@xxxxxxx (Konstantin Scheglov) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:22:02 GMT

Well, we don't provide much documentation, only source.

Initially WindowBuilder had only support for Java based toolkits, but then we've added also support for XML.

So, it is extensible in some form.

I recommend you to look on org.eclipse.wb.core.xml (base support for XML) and org.eclipse.wb.xwt (specific parser, renderer, models, etc).

But you should understand that adding support for new language, such as C++ is big task.

You will need:

1. Some format of components description - for XML we've used same *.wbp-component.xml descriptions as for Java and even share these descriptions for example between GWT Java and GWT UiBinder. See org.eclipse.wb.internal.core.xml.model.description.ComponentDescription and org.eclipse.wb.internal.core.xml.model.description.ComponentDescriptionHelper

2. New Editor which is composition of language specific Source editor and Design page which hosts subclass of org.eclipse.wb.internal.core.editor.DesignComposite, see org.eclipse.wb.internal.core.xml.editor.XmlDesignComposite and org.eclipse.wb.internal.core.xml.editor.XmlDesignPage which hosts it

3. Parser of the source into models tree. See org.eclipse.wb.internal.xwt.parser.XwtParser or com.google.gdt.eclipse.designer.uibinder.parser.UiBinderParser (GWT Design is also open sourced, but not in Eclipse, see http://code.google.com/p/gwt-designer/)

4. Renderer which takes models tree (or just source) and renders real UI with ability to ask every property value, location/size of each component, their images, etc. See org.eclipse.wb.internal.xwt.parser.XwtRenderer or com.google.gdt.eclipse.designer.uibinder.parser.UiBinderRenderer

5. Toolkit specific set of models and GEF EditParts, LayoutEditPolicies to edit models and source. See org.eclipse.wb.internal.core.xml.model.XmlObjectInfo and org.eclipse.wb.internal.xwt.model.widgets.ControlInfo

This has been on my list of things to look at since WindowBuilder joined Eclipse. I've been wondering whether it can be used for non-Java GUI designs. There are quite a few windowing platforms in the native world I interact with CDT and they all need good Eclipse-based design tools.

Along those lines is there any documentation I could look at to learn more about how to add a new integrations?

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Re: [wb-dev] Extensibility docs?

vineet@xxxxxxx (Vineet Sinha) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:58:13 GMT

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

... The codemaps link doesn't work for me.

Seems like we hit a bug - we are looking at fixing it. We will let you know when it is done.

It might be better if we had that documentation on eclipse.org somewhere.

Yeah, that's the plan. We are playing on the site with features that would help the community contribute documentation - once we get it right we will put it up on eclipse.org.

-Vineet

From: Vineet Sinha <vineet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: "Mailing list for discussion of Windowbuilder dev issues involving the core engine, public apis and docs" <wb-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:46:05 -0400
To: "Mailing list for discussion of Windowbuilder dev issues involving the core engine, public apis and docs" <wb-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [wb-dev] Extensibility docs?

My understanding is that WindowBuilder is being used in the BlackBerry IDE as well as being tried out for the Android tool. So they are going beyond typical desktop Java.

I don't know how hard it will be to add support for new windowing platform - but it should be possible.

We did some work to add documentation to help in adding integrations - more needs to be done, but hopefully you will find the work helpful: http://www.codemaps.org/c/WindowBuilder

Most of the WindowBuilder discussion seems to be happening here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=214 You might get a better response there.

Regards,

Vineet

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey gang,

This has been on my list of things to look at since WindowBuilder joined Eclipse. I've been wondering whether it can be used for non-Java GUI designs. There are quite a few windowing platforms in the native world I interact with CDT and they all need good Eclipse-based design tools.

Along those lines is there any documentation I could look at to learn more about how to add a new integrations?

Thanks,

Doug

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Re: [wb-dev] Extensibility docs?

dschaefer@xxxxxxx (Doug Schaefer) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:52:54 GMT

Thanks for you're response. I'll start following the forum. The codemaps link doesn't work for me. It might be better if we had that documentation on eclipse.org somewhere.

Cheers,

Doug.

My understanding is that WindowBuilder is being used in the BlackBerry IDE as well as being tried out for the Android tool. So they are going beyond typical desktop Java.

I don't know how hard it will be to add support for new windowing platform - but it should be possible.

We did some work to add documentation to help in adding integrations - more needs to be done, but hopefully you will find the work helpful: http://www.codemaps.org/c/WindowBuilder

Most of the WindowBuilder discussion seems to be happening here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=214 You might get a better response there.

Regards,

Vineet

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey gang,

This has been on my list of things to look at since WindowBuilder joined Eclipse. I've been wondering whether it can be used for non-Java GUI designs. There are quite a few windowing platforms in the native world I interact with CDT and they all need good Eclipse-based design tools.

Along those lines is there any documentation I could look at to learn more about how to add a new integrations?

Thanks,

Doug

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Re: [wb-dev] Extensibility docs?

vineet@xxxxxxx (Vineet Sinha) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:46:05 GMT

My understanding is that WindowBuilder is being used in the BlackBerry IDE as well as being tried out for the Android tool. So they are going beyond typical desktop Java.

I don't know how hard it will be to add support for new windowing platform - but it should be possible.

We did some work to add documentation to help in adding integrations - more needs to be done, but hopefully you will find the work helpful: http://www.codemaps.org/c/WindowBuilder

Most of the WindowBuilder discussion seems to be happening here: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=thread&frm_id=214 You might get a better response there.

Regards,

Vineet

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Doug Schaefer <dschaefer@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hey gang,

This has been on my list of things to look at since WindowBuilder joined Eclipse. I've been wondering whether it can be used for non-Java GUI designs. There are quite a few windowing platforms in the native world I interact with CDT and they all need good Eclipse-based design tools.

Along those lines is there any documentation I could look at to learn more about how to add a new integrations?

Thanks,

Doug

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[wb-dev] Extensibility docs?

dschaefer@xxxxxxx (Doug Schaefer) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:25:06 GMT

Hey gang,

This has been on my list of things to look at since WindowBuilder joined Eclipse. I've been wondering whether it can be used for non-Java GUI designs. There are quite a few windowing platforms in the native world I interact with CDT and they all need good Eclipse-based design tools.

Along those lines is there any documentation I could look at to learn more about how to add a new integrations?

Thanks,

Doug

[wb-dev] Project meta data is out of date for tools.windowbuilder

emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:00:07 GMT

Eric,
Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation
Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/).  The following problems were found
with this project's meta-data:

* The date for release "1.2.0" is in the past, but the release is not
marked as completed. If it is completed, it should be marked as completed;
if it has been postponed, it should be given a new target date.

[wb-dev] Project meta data is out of date for tools.windowbuilder

emo@xxxxxxx (portal on behalf of emo) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 04:00:12 GMT

Eric,
Projects are required to keep meta data up to date using the MyFoundation
Portal (http://portal.eclipse.org/).  The following problems were found
with this project's meta-data:

* The date for release "1.0.0" is in the past, but the release is not
marked as completed. If it is completed, it should be marked as completed;
if it has been postponed, it should be given a new target date.
* There is no next/future release of this project. All Eclipse projects
must have a "next release" planned and scheduled.

[wb-dev] Getting Developers involved with WindowBuilder

vineet@xxxxxxx (Vineet Sinha) — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:48:25 GMT

Hey guys,

I was talking to Eric Clayberg last night and he suggested I e-mail here. I have been a big fan of WindowBuilder and have been excited with it being recently open sourced.

With that being said, I have noticed that many developers have a hard time becoming contributors to open source projects as they may not clearly understand the main concepts and the architecture. I have been trying to make sure the we (at Architexa) can help here.

We have been working on a cool project - trying to help developers get started with the guts of WindowBuilder. We have created a simple site consisting of architectural documentation for main ideas of WindowBuilder. You can find them here: http://codemaps.org/s/WindowBuilder

We want to make this resource available to everyone, and have made it the underlying tooling free for projects like WindowBuilder. If you haven't heard about it - we build tooling to help get simple and useful diagrams from a codebase. There is a small video demo-ing it here: http://www.architexa.com/learn-more/videos/intro/video. You can find more information on our support for Open Source projects initiative here: http://www.architexa.com/start/open-source

We have gotten some positive feedback for the site, but I wanted to start rolling it out with WindowBuilder. I are really curious to hear what the WindowBuilder community thinks of CodeMaps.

Regards,

Vineet
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