I am trying to develop an Eclipse plugin which will need some (I believe)
pretty sophisticated UI.
I would like to build a set of graphical objects, each being a small
container for some widgets like text fields, trees, drop-down menus, etc.
They should be organised and freely drag-&-dropped and moved around like
desktop windows. It should be something like iGoogle or the MacOS X
Dashboard, for those who are familiar with it, but it must run within a
Workbench View.
I have very little experience with the Eclipse framework but I've done
some experimentation with JFace and GEF. However, it is not clear to me if
any of these can be easily employed for this task.
Does anyone have a hint as to what library, UI toolkit etc. is most
suitable for building such a user interface? If so, could you please
redirect me to other appropriate newsgroups?
I apologise for the generic, maybe even trivial question, but I don't
really know where to start and I wouldn't want to start developing in pure
SWT on my own for something that has been done already.