Re: [platform-ui-dev] Component framework proposal

[Stefan Xenos <Stefan_Xenos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Randy,

The final target is to support nesting
of all existing views and editors, but probably only new components will
be supported in the first pass. It is, unfortunately, going to be a lot
of work to wrap all old code in new-style components... so it may take
awhile (don't expect it to work before M4).

I have a plan for selection providers,
but trying to collect ideas about what to do with the rest of the stuff
was one reason for making the framework proposal available at this early
stage.

You tend to have good ideas, Randy,
so if you've already have any about how a particular service might be nested,
now is a good time to make them known. :-) (If you've already filed PRs
that suggest an implementation, please direct me to them.)

  - Stefan

Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Some ?s: 

How is a legacy view (for example the PropertiesView in 3.0) going to work
with a multipage editor written using this new proposal?  The legacy
view relies on active part notification.  It's not clear how changing
pages in a multipage editor is going to notify this event, if the pages
aren't even IEditor/WorkbenchParts. 

setFocus() is too simple of an example for the multiplex case.  What
about keybindings contexts, registered actions, selection providers, etc.?
 Is the goal to support nesting of these new Components, or nesting
of existing Views/Editors? 

-randy

Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>
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See markup in red. Come chat if anything isn't clear.



McQ.




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The component framework proposal is now available online. 

This is part of the spec for the workbench part API in Eclipse 3.1, 
intended to support easier nesting and reuse of UI components. 

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/components-proposal/ComponentFrameworkProposal.html


 - Stefan
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