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[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: [ANN] SWTPlus, custom widgets for SWT
Chris wrote: 
Hi Ben,

We're weighing everything. Donations would be the best route but I'm not sure how many people would donate.

Right, but you should also think of the valuable feedback you would get, as a lot of users will use the custom widgets. I think a good solution would be to go for a dual-licsense. As soon as your library is used in commercial applications, you have to pay for it.


Regarding the browser widget, what do you need that isn't available in SWT's browser widget?

Ah well, was just giving an example of what I am sometimes missing in SWT. I am thinking of such a widget as soon as a Linux user is complaining that the Browser widget is not working because he is not using the correct Mozilla version. Another example are Windows user that complain why the have to run unsafe IE, although Firefox is installed. Dont get me wrong, the Browser integration is awesome and unique, but there are cases where I would prefer a lightweight Browser widget.

Ben


-Chris

"Benjamin Pasero" <bpasero@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d7mf04$o47$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi Chris,

Thanks for providing these custom widgets!

However, I would strongly recommend to make them opensource. When it comes to earning money, you could opt in for receiving donations (for
example via Paypal).

The big advantage of opensource in this case is, at lot more people will actually use your stuff in their applications. And more people using it will result in a bigger chance to get some money back. This is how opensource is working, you can earn a lot via Donations.

As a suggestion for a license, I'd go for the Eclipse license.

If I could vote or a custom widget, I would go for a leightweight Browser widget :) (I would donate for it!).

Ben


Hi Kris,

Potentially. We've thought about it. But alot of the work on these widgets is non-trivial. We are hoping at some point to make a small amount of money just to pay for all the time we've put in (and will put in), albeit likely a small amount.

We've tried to embrace an open design model, where you can extend our widgets. I'd be really excited if developers would spend the time to build these extensions and we'd support and keep those open. So we're trying to do the best of both worlds.

We hope to have an article out shortly on how to create extensions (we call strategies) to our PGroup widgets.

-Chris

"Kris" <fu@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:d7lnh1$1bn$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Will you consider making these open-source?

- Kris


"Chris" <schtoo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d7llr0$vea$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


There were just a few features I wanted with a link widget that I don't 

get

from the 3.1 link widget. They are:

Optionally underline the widget on hover, or to not underline at all.
Ability to specify an image. Sure you can show an image separately and
align it with the link but thats annoying.
Ability to specify an image only to create a simple image selector/button.
Ability to remove the focus rectangle from the link widget.

Most of this functionality exists in the Forms ImageHyperlink but that 

class


is tied heavily to the Forms implementation (that is, the API is not easy 

to


use).  Also, it is painful to use Forms in a base SWT application.

Granted, the link widget alone isn't that exciting. There will be lots 

more


to come.  In the next few weeks we should release an extensible combo
widget, an enhanced list widget and a date widget.

-Chris


"Daniel Spiewak" <djspiewak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why the hyperlink widget?  There's already a hyperlink widget in the 3.1
release.

Daniel

Chris wrote:
Hi,

I'd like to announce the initial release of SWTPlus. SWTPlus is a set of
custom widgets for SWT. Currently, we have two widgets but more will be
coming soon.

Please drop by and take a look.

http://www.swtplus.com

Thanks,
-Chris