[news.eclipse.platform] Re: [Databinding] Making views synchronize with

[Ali Naddaf <ali@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can use databinding to achieve what you want. Once you bind a 
control/viewer to a data, changes in the data gets reflected in the 
control/viewer without any extra code. databinding is still under 
development toward a stable release but I am currently using it and has 
made my life much easier.

Ali.

Nacef LABIDI wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a newbie to eclipse RCP and I'm trying to develop a sort of bar 
> chart viewer.
>
> What my application is doing is loading the data parsed from an XML file 
> into my data model (a root containing some ArrayLists : an ArrayList for 
> each type of data). Then my perspective is containing a set of views in 
> each view a TableViewer having its data provided by a different 
> ContentProvider for each ArrayList of my data model.
>
> What I want to realise is to make Actions do modifications on my data 
> model, and I want my views to automatically update their display 
> according to the changes that occured on the data model.
>
> Do I have to implements Observer pattern for my own, or does the JFace 
> contains something that does this.
> I'm reading something about org.eclipse.jface.databinding but I don't 
> know if this is the good way.