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[ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #147735]

Wed, 22 October 2003 11:03

Eclipse User

We are close to releasing an update to SWT Designer that contains very nice
support for FormLayout. Before releasing the update, we wanted to get
feedback and suggestions from the group. The most exciting aspect of the
FormLayout capability is the support for dynamic snap points at the window
margins, at the edges of possible target widgets, and to user-defined
percentage points within the window.

You can access the "FormLayout Preview" pics from the SWT Designer home
page, http://www.swt-designer.com, or directly from
here...http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/form layout.html. We
hope to get a flash demo in place soon that will show this off.

Note that the new FormLayout capability will only be available in the
professional version of the product. The pro version is currently available
to any member of this newsgroup at a 25% discount ($149) through the end of
October. To take advantage of this offer, click on the "Buy It Now" button
on the Order page at http://www.swt-designer.com and enter the "discount
coupon" code "ECLP030930" in the "Optional Information" section of the order
form.

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
mailto:cpsws-support@instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws
http://www.swt-designer.com

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #147834 is a reply to message #147735]

Wed, 22 October 2003 14:01

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rgallen.comcast.net

Eric Clayberg wrote:

> We are close to releasing an update to SWT Designer that contains very nice
> support for FormLayout. Before releasing the update, we wanted to get
> feedback and suggestions from the group. The most exciting aspect of the
> FormLayout capability is the support for dynamic snap points at the window
> margins, at the edges of possible target widgets, and to user-defined
> percentage points within the window.

> You can access the "FormLayout Preview" pics from the SWT Designer home
> page, http://www.swt-designer.com, or directly from
> here...http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/form layout.html. We
> hope to get a flash demo in place soon that will show this off.

As an existing owner of Designer, my only comment is when can I download
the update ? :-)

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #147895 is a reply to message #147834]

Wed, 22 October 2003 16:16

Eclipse User

"Rennie Allen" <rgallen@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:bn6gm4$is4$1@eclipse.org...
>
> As an existing owner of Designer, my only comment is when can I download
> the update ? :-)

Hopefully, soon. The new FormLayout support represents an enormous amount of
engineering work, so we want to make sure to get it just right. How did the
pics look? Any suggestion, comments or requirements for the FormLayout
support?

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
mailto:cpsws-support@instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws
http://www.swt-designer.com

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #147969 is a reply to message #147735]

Wed, 22 October 2003 17:13

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: kirk_wolf_nospam.mastercard.com

WindowBuilder rides again! :-)

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #147974 is a reply to message #147735]

Wed, 22 October 2003 17:38

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: vkyr.nospam-ision.net

That looks good Eric and I believe it will be a very welcome addition for
all SWT Designer users!

-Valentino

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #148000 is a reply to message #147895]

Wed, 22 October 2003 19:00

Eclipse User

AWESOME!!!

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #148010 is a reply to message #147735]

Wed, 22 October 2003 21:30

Eclipse User

Looks great! Especially given that this product is only three months old
since it's first released.

Michael

Eric Clayberg wrote:

> We are close to releasing an update to SWT Designer that contains very nice
> support for FormLayout. Before releasing the update, we wanted to get
> feedback and suggestions from the group. The most exciting aspect of the
> FormLayout capability is the support for dynamic snap points at the window
> margins, at the edges of possible target widgets, and to user-defined
> percentage points within the window.

> You can access the "FormLayout Preview" pics from the SWT Designer home
> page, http://www.swt-designer.com, or directly from
> here...http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/form layout.html. We
> hope to get a flash demo in place soon that will show this off.

> Note that the new FormLayout capability will only be available in the
> professional version of the product. The pro version is currently available
> to any member of this newsgroup at a 25% discount ($149) through the end of
> October. To take advantage of this offer, click on the "Buy It Now" button
> on the Order page at http://www.swt-designer.com and enter the "discount
> coupon" code "ECLP030930" in the "Optional Information" section of the order
> form.

> -Eric Clayberg
> Sr. Vice President of Product Development
> Instantiations, Inc.
> mailto:cpsws-support@instantiations.com
> http://www.instantiations.com
> http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws
> http://www.swt-designer.com

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #148031 is a reply to message #147895]

Wed, 22 October 2003 23:49

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rgallen.comcast.net

Eric Clayberg wrote:

> "Rennie Allen" <rgallen@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:bn6gm4$is4$1@eclipse.org...
> >
> > As an existing owner of Designer, my only comment is when can I download
> > the update ? :-)

> Hopefully, soon. The new FormLayout support represents an enormous amount of
> engineering work, so we want to make sure to get it just right. How did the
> pics look? Any suggestion, comments or requirements for the FormLayout
> support?

It looks great; but it is hard to give much more in the way of comments
without actually getting my mitts on it.

Take your time and get it right, from what I have seen so far your first
crack at it should be pretty good.

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #148041 is a reply to message #147735]

Thu, 23 October 2003 02:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nomail.nomail.com

> You can access the "FormLayout Preview" pics from the SWT Designer home
> page, http://www.swt-designer.com, or directly from
> here...http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/form layout.html.
We
> hope to get a flash demo in place soon that will show this off.

I was not aware of this plugin, look very interesting. But webpage layout is
not what I've used to. A lot of inplace scrollable frames makes it hard to
read. Especially left-bottom "News" frame is very very hard to read as I can
only see 5 lines and then must scroll the inplace frame. I hope other
websites don't follow such layout schema.

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #148355 is a reply to message #148041]

Thu, 23 October 2003 08:05

Eclipse User

"X_AWemner_X" <nomail@nomail.com> wrote in message
news:bn7tls$lgo$1@eclipse.org...
> > You can access the "FormLayout Preview" pics from the SWT Designer home
> > page, http://www.swt-designer.com, or directly from
> > here...http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/form layout.html.
> We
> > hope to get a flash demo in place soon that will show this off.
>
> I was not aware of this plugin, look very interesting. But webpage layout
is
> not what I've used to. A lot of inplace scrollable frames makes it hard to
> read. Especially left-bottom "News" frame is very very hard to read as I
can
> only see 5 lines and then must scroll the inplace frame. I hope other
> websites don't follow such layout schema.

The website was set up to emulate the Eclipse look and feel. Lots of folks
tell us they like it, but I agree that the News frame is too small. I will
try and fix that.

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
mailto:cpsws-support@instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws
http://www.swt-designer.com

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #148957 is a reply to message #148355]

Fri, 24 October 2003 02:33

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: nomail.nomail.com

> > not what I've used to. A lot of inplace scrollable frames makes it hard
to
> > read. Especially left-bottom "News" frame is very very hard to read as I
> can
> > only see 5 lines and then must scroll the inplace frame. I hope other
> > websites don't follow such layout schema.
>
> The website was set up to emulate the Eclipse look and feel. Lots of folks
> tell us they like it, but I agree that the News frame is too small. I will
> try and fix that.

Caption emulating Eclipse indeed looks good, but inplace frames sux I you
ask me. Its very hard to scroll up and down reading the long pages.

I suggest you still keep "Eclipse caption bar" bitmap, but get rid of the
inframes. Make a regular page and just use html-table to seperate column
textregions. Then its easy to scroll page even in low resolution comps.

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #149141 is a reply to message #148010]

Fri, 24 October 2003 13:00

Eclipse User

Will TableTreeViewer support be added soon? Thanks!

Michael

Michael Xia wrote:

> Looks great! Especially given that this product is only three months old
> since it's first released.

> Michael

> Eric Clayberg wrote:

> > We are close to releasing an update to SWT Designer that contains very nice
> > support for FormLayout. Before releasing the update, we wanted to get
> > feedback and suggestions from the group. The most exciting aspect of the
> > FormLayout capability is the support for dynamic snap points at the window
> > margins, at the edges of possible target widgets, and to user-defined
> > percentage points within the window.

> > You can access the "FormLayout Preview" pics from the SWT Designer home
> > page, http://www.swt-designer.com, or directly from
> > here...http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/form layout.html. We
> > hope to get a flash demo in place soon that will show this off.

> > Note that the new FormLayout capability will only be available in the
> > professional version of the product. The pro version is currently available
> > to any member of this newsgroup at a 25% discount ($149) through the end of
> > October. To take advantage of this offer, click on the "Buy It Now" button
> > on the Order page at http://www.swt-designer.com and enter the "discount
> > coupon" code "ECLP030930" in the "Optional Information" section of the
order
> > form.

> > -Eric Clayberg
> > Sr. Vice President of Product Development
> > Instantiations, Inc.
> > mailto:cpsws-support@instantiations.com
> > http://www.instantiations.com
> > http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws
> > http://www.swt-designer.com

Re: [ANN] SWT Designer FormLayout Preview Pics [message #149241 is a reply to message #149141]

Fri, 24 October 2003 17:18

Eclipse User

"Michael Xia" <yun@rti.com> wrote in message
news:bnblrt$27i$1@eclipse.org...
> Will TableTreeViewer support be added soon? Thanks!

It's already in the product. You can see it in the screenshot here...

http://www.instantiations.com/swt-designer/shots/gtk.html

-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
mailto:cpsws-support@instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.instantiations.com/codepro/ws
http://www.swt-designer.com

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