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setup for Eclipse forms toolkit [message #119989]

Mon, 06 March 2006 18:16

Andreas Niemeyer

Messages: 40
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hello,

I've tried to get the forms toolkit enabled on OS X based on this
article and failed:

http://www.eclipse.org/vep/WebContent/docs/newAndNoteworthy/ 1.2-M2/

I'm not familiar in designing RCP applications but I would like to start
now together with this great looking GUI builder tool.

I felt inspired as I've seen the layouts on and read about the new
capabilities for VEP on OS X and generally.

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Forms/article.html

Could someone point me what the first steps are to get VEP and forms
toolkit together?

What kind of project I have to create? I guess it should/must be a
plugin project and within there a viewpart class has to create?
Afterwards a plugin dependency has to linked to an additional created
project with the source of org.eclipse.ui.forms ?

Sorry for my confusion, actually I'm only experienced in creating swt
applications with jface.
I guess I have to study basics first, some links and orders would be
appreciated.

Thank you in advance,
Andreas

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Re: setup for Eclipse forms toolkit [message #120002 is a reply to message #119989]

Mon, 06 March 2006 18:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com

For OSX shouldn't be any different than for Windows or Linux. The new
and noteworthy shows how to get the forms toolkit working.

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp

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Re: setup for Eclipse forms toolkit [message #120054 is a reply to message #120002]

Tue, 07 March 2006 14:34

Jeff Myers

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I tried using Forms last night on OS X and everything worked as
expected. To use forms, create a new plug-in project, make sure that
you select the plug-in makes UI contributions check. When the plug-in
descriptor file opens when the wizard finishes, switch to the
Dependencies tab, and add a dependency to the org.eclipse.ui.forms
plug-in and save the file.

Then create a new Visual Class extending JFace Viewers or Editors, or
SWT Shell or Composite, and the Forms elements will show on the palette.

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

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