[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Widgets as in iGoogle or the MacOS X Dashboa

[alessandro.adamou@xxxxxxxxxxx (Alessandro Adamou)]

Thanks for the reply. In principle I would need something with the 
flexibility of a View, but its behaviour and look-and-feel are not exactly 
what I was thinking of. For example, I do not want them to be grouped in 
tabbed panes, nor do I necessarily want them to stretch to fit all 
available space, as it happens in the IDE.

Rather than that, I would like to be able to move these widgets within a 
single View, without allowing them to traverse other views.

Think about window behaviour in common OS windowing systems. You drag them 
around, resize them, sometimes collapse them, and each includes all kinds 
of controls. That's more or less what I would like to happen in a single 
View.

Alessandro


> It's impossible to say for sure without knowing more details of the 
> requirements, but I'd say you can use Views. Views can be dragged around 
> and docked in very flexible ways within the Workbench, and can contain 
> any kind of SWT or JFace controls.
> In the Help, look under the Workbench User Guide. There are sections in 
> Getting Started and Concepts that explain Views in detail.

> Hope this helps,
> Eric