[news.eclipse.technology.riena] Re: Riena Gui

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christian Campo schrieb:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I was orginally thinking of UFace which was also on our radar. But we 
> are not
> fixed to any lib yet. We have a certain vision on what we think the UI 

Well UFace itself isn't a widget library it's only a wrapper for 
existing widgets beside being a possibility to write code once and 
deploy to different runtimes (SWT/GWT/....) one of it's other main 
targets is to provide a higherlevel Databinding-Concept.

> should look like. You can see
> that Mauels posting at the beginning of this thread
> and also here 
> http://eclipsesummit.org/summiteurope2007/presentations/ESE2007_Riena.pdf
> we have a certain idea how the UI should look like. That includes the 
> top of the UI with
> the window, the toolbar, the navigation on the left.

I was there ;-) and Riena is one of the things never falling of from my 
rader because we are developing similar appilications :-).

We are currently starting an internal project to move our legacy code 
(internal Database/UI-Binding + Privilegsystem + ....) to 
Eclipse-Databinding (UFace might play a role here too :-).

Our current application framework only support a 2-tier architecture 
(which was enough until now) but we are looking around how we could 
overcome this limitation and I think Riena could give us all the things 
we need

> But sure thats only a proposed look and others might have different ideas.
>
> Promising things in that direction I have seen so far are
> - SWT Ribbons http://www.hexapixel.com/ribbon/ (are there any patent 
> problems with that with Microsoft BTW ?)
> - Nebula and specifically the PShelf although we need a little more than 
> it has.

What I wanted to point out that was:
- if nebula provides a widget useful to Riena but needs some tweaking
  => get in touch with the nebula people they welcome any contribution
     requests, ....
- if you create new widgets try to keep them as seperate as possible
  (a "bad" example is the RichTextEditor from EPF see
  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=209373) or even better
  put them into nebula instead of riena?

> So any idea that gets us closer that proposed sample I think helps us 
> and helps others (like Manuel).

Tom

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Tom Schindl                                          JFace-Committer
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