Creating an UI Toolkit for an Abstract GUI-Framework [message #1015141] |
Wed, 27 February 2013 14:55 |
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Hey,
first of all I'd like to know if this is still the repository for the WindowBuilder Sourcecode:
http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/tools/org.eclipse.windowbuilder/
I'd like to create an UI Toolkit for an abstract GUI-Framework and I'd like to use the most current version (1.5) for that.
As this project is a bit long termed I'd also like to know if there will be many changes with the new Release in March? (As it would be quite counterproductive/too time consuming for me to get into 1.5 in order to relearn it with 1.6 again.)
Anyway, the GUI-Framework I'm using is slightly based on SWING, but is more of a meta-model above that. GUI that is created using the Presentation Forms of that Framework will be used in either the presentation on a SWING- or a wingS-client, making the whole thing cross-platform accessible. Which one will be decided while the system is running obviously.
My question is: Is it even possible to create an UI-Toolkit that uses the Extention Points of the WB to create Code for the Abstract PF-Components, but display SWING-Components in the WB itself (DesignView)?
I'd be grateful for any thoughts and/or advice on that matter.
On the note of EP: I've read that there are quite a bunch of them for the project, but is there any documentation that covers all of the necessary ones?
Or is there even any documentation at all on how to extend the WB?
What I've found so far is not really that helpful...
Thanks in advance for any kind of help.
And a little note I'd like to add: If this whole thing is indeed possible - which I hope -, it will become the topic for my bachelor's thesis. That means if any answer to any of the above or some of the follow up questions are valuable for me I'd need to quote them as reference. If that is the case I will contact the author for his/her agreement. Just so you know what might happen.
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