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Enabling users to create UI for views/editors [message #715496]

Sun, 14 August 2011 06:51

Alexey Romanov

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Registered: May 2010

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One of my requirement is to enable users to create custom views of our data. I see basically two options.

1. Embed VEP or some other visual GUI builder. It would need to be: easy enough to use; have some hooks to compile generated files and make them available to my application; localizable; and the license must permit such use. Which GUI builders satisfy these requirements?

2. Generate GUI on the fly from text files in a human-writable format (e.g. XML, but not necessarily). There are some libraries which do this: CookSWT, XSWT, JellySWT, SWTML, XWT (I presume it can be used from old RCP using the e4 Bridge). Are there any projects I've missed?

redView was suggested when I asked this question at StackOverflow, but it doesn't work with Indigo currently (though a new version should be released soon), and doesn't support creating editors.

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Sun, 14 August 2011 12:24

Wim Jongman

Messages: 423
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Romaov,

Reporting with BIRT could be an option. The result can be show in a view
(with some coding) and the users also have the option to store the content in
pdf, excel, word, etc..

Regards,

Wim

> One of my requirement is to enable users to create custom views of our
data. I see basically two options.
>
> 1. Embed VEP or some other visual GUI builder. It would need to be: easy
enough to use; have some hooks to compile generated files and make them
available to my application; localizable; and the license must permit such
use. Which GUI builders satisfy these requirements?
>
> 2. Generate GUI on the fly from text files in a human-writable format (e.g.
XML, but not necessarily). There are some libraries which do this: CookSWT,
XSWT, JellySWT, SWTML, XWT (I presume it can be used from old RCP using the
e4 Bridge). Are there any projects I've missed?
>
> redView was suggested when I
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250327/enabling-users-to-create-custom-forms-in-rcp,
but it doesn't work with Indigo currently (though a new version should be
released soon), and doesn't support creating editors.

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