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GUI Plug-in evaluation [message #112536]

Wed, 07 December 2005 10:22

Gama Franco

Messages: 16
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello,

I'm evaluating several plug-ins for SWING development using eclipse.
So far I've evaluated Jigloo, and now I'm exploring VE.

I couldn't find a reference to the ButtonGroup bean in the VEs sidebar. I've noticed that there is not an option to assign a JRadioButton to a Button Group. Am I missing something, or this situation is not supported yet?

Also, I would like to know how does VE handle the inheritance of JFrames. This is, does VE behave as expected when we have a Form that inherits from another Form?

Thanks in advance,
Gama Franco

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Re: GUI Plug-in evaluation [message #112549 is a reply to message #112536]

Wed, 07 December 2005 10:23

Gama Franco

Messages: 16
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I'm sorry, but I forgot another question.

Is it possible to add costum beans (external COTS) to the VE's sidebar?

Thanks in advance,
Gama Franco

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Re: GUI Plug-in evaluation [message #112562 is a reply to message #112549]

Wed, 07 December 2005 14:15

Jeff Myers

Messages: 489
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Gama,

1) Visually editing ButtonGroups are not supported by the VE right now (
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=49189 ). From a future
design perspective, how would you like the visual manipulation of
ButtonGroups work? You can add your ideas to that feature request.

2) Subclassing JFrames should work as expected, so long as the parent
class has a public no-argument constructor. Same goes for any other
visual class.

3) It's possible, but not easy to add custom beans to the palette. An
article describing how to do so is here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/indextools.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E /org.eclipse.ve.examples/org.eclipse.ve.example.customwidget /WebContent/index.html
and the enhancement request to make this easier is here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=48889
Another option, that's much easier is to use the Choose Bean button on
the palette to drop your custom bean.

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

Gama Franco wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I forgot another question.
>
> Is it possible to add costum beans (external COTS) to the VE's sidebar?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Gama Franco

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