[forge-dev] Dynamic UI in Eclipse

[ggastald at redhat.com]

Sure, it's on 
https://github.com/forge/jbosstools-forge/blob/forge2/plugins/org.jboss.tools.forge.ui/src/org/jboss/tools/forge/ui/wizards/ComponentFactory.java 
and 
https://github.com/forge/jbosstools-forge/blob/forge2/plugins/org.jboss.tools.forge.ui/src/org/jboss/tools/forge/ui/wizards/ForgeWizardPage.java

Best Regards !

George Gastaldi

On 01/17/2013 07:10 PM, Richard Kennard wrote:
> 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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