[forge-dev] Dynamic UI in Eclipse

[Richard Kennard]

Are you writing code to dynamically instantiate SWT Controls and arrange them using, say, a GridLayout or a MigLayout, or across TabFolders? Because 
Metawidget has you covered for that. It'll also wire up Eclipse's DataBinding for you (including lookups and enums). And of course you can plug in an 
Inspector for whatever metadata you want to base it on.

Can you point me at the code where you're instantiating the SWT Controls?

On 18/01/2013 8:04 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
> Possibly... I didn't know you supported that. Right now we are working on getting a base PoC working, so if you want, take a look at this repo, it would 
> be the place to start:
>
> https://github.com/forge/jbosstools-forge/tree/forge2
>
> If you think Metawidget makes sense here, we can think about using it. If it works, it might be beneficial since that would mean we'd effectively get a 
> number of UIs for free (web as well.)
>
> To fill you in on where we are, we are building dynamic UI based on metadata from Forge 2 UICommand and UIWizard instances:
>
> https://github.com/forge/core/blob/2.0/ui/api/src/main/java/org/jboss/forge/ui/UICommand.java
>
> So it could be a good fit. Please feel free to play around and let us know what you find :) There are still quite a few things in this API that will 
> likely change as we discover what does/does not work. So more feedback is good.
>
> ~Lincoln
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Richard Kennard <richard at kennardconsulting.com <mailto:richard at kennardconsulting.com>> wrote:
>
>     Would you guys find Metawidget useful for this? It has a runtime SWT version (see the SWT Address Book example in the distribution).
>
>     If not, is there something I can do to make Metawidget more applicable for your use case?
>
>     On 18/01/2013 2:47 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
>     >
>     > I expect we may still have problems with enums, but for now... as long as we avoid any Final types in the interfaces, and stick to using interfaces, it
>     > should be tolerable :)
>     >
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>     > On Jan 17, 2013 6:18 AM, "George Gastaldi" <ggastald at redhat.com <mailto:ggastald at redhat.com> <mailto:ggastald at redhat.com
>     <mailto:ggastald at redhat.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Yes !!!! Congratulations on making the lookup work also. Now things are getting real :)
>     >
>     >     Em 17/01/2013, às 04:01, "Lincoln Baxter, III" <lincolnbaxter at gmail.com <mailto:lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> <mailto:lincolnbaxter at gmail.com
>     <mailto:lincolnbaxter at gmail.com>>> escreveu:
>     >
>     >>     Thanks George and Koen for mocking out the Eclipse UI functionality so well that when I got the Forge runtime bit working, this was possible
>     without
>     >>     any code changes!
>     >>
>     >>     Extremely rewarding to see!
>     >>
>     >>     <ForgeDynamicWizard.png>
>     >>
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