| GEF or SWT-Designer (newbie question) [message #116918] |
Tue, 10 February 2004 21:10  |
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Originally posted by: svenkat.asu.edu
I wanted to create an application that provides a graphical editor, where
users can choose shapes from a tool bar and place it on the editing
area...somewhat similar to a UML editing program. Can I use SWT-Designer
(which claims to be a wonderful GUI creator) or do I use GEF as a
starting-point?
Thanks!
Prabhu.
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| Re: GEF or SWT-Designer (newbie question) [message #117295 is a reply to message #116918] |
Thu, 12 February 2004 04:57  |
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Originally posted by: eostroukhov.hotmail.com
SWT designer (I guess, you refer to the plugin by Instantiations) is used to
create dialogs - i.e. place controls on the form, tie events and generate
Java code to use this dialog in your application. In most cases such dialogs
will be static at the runtime - they are not to be edited by users. Users
only input data in the dialog fields.
GEF is a framework for creating visual editors - i.e. UML editor, SWT
designer, WYISWYG report editor etc. It allows you to create palette window,
accept user commands, etc.
I guess, you need GEF :)
Eugene
"Prabhu" <svenkat@asu.edu> wrote in message news:c0c2ps$1ba$1@eclipse.org...
> I wanted to create an application that provides a graphical editor, where
> users can choose shapes from a tool bar and place it on the editing
> area...somewhat similar to a UML editing program. Can I use SWT-Designer
> (which claims to be a wonderful GUI creator) or do I use GEF as a
> starting-point?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Prabhu.
>
>
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