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Re: [e4-dev] how to contribute to toolkit model ?
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> Yves,
>
>> XWT has a package of metamodel service. In most of the case, the model
>> UI
>> comes directly from SWT via reflection. But in some case, we need to
>> complete/enhance it since SWT is not model-base. And user can define
>> their
>> own metaclass.
>
> OK. Is this a model of the mapping from XML tags and attributes to calls
> to the SWT API? Do you have an example of such a model?
It is in thie bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=260289
For sure, it is little out of date. We need a XWTResourceImp to manage the
serialization of XWT resource for EMF. For this task, I make a call. We
need some helps.
>
> > Mainly, if the home-made widget respects Java Bean specification.
> > There is nothing to do.
>
> That's because reflection is used, right?
yes.
>
> > Otherwise, you need to create the metaclass and register in
> > XWT: XWT.registerMetaclass(IMetaclass).
>
> I could look it up in the code, but perhaps you could explain what
> information the IMetaclass includes?
Very simple: Properties, Events and superclasses.
yves
>
> Hallvard
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