[nebula-dev] Extensions for faster text input / idea

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Hello!

I have to admit, that I am a complete newbie for contributing ideas and
/ or code to an open source community. So please apologize for any
inconvenience or this message itself. I hope, that this is the right
place.

Maybe, this post isn't even a possible direct contribution, but more an
idea how to extend existing controls. But instead of leaving the idea
and code alone on my PC, I've decided to ask if anyone else might find
this usefull, though my coding style probably looks like newbie, too ;-)

For a quick demonstration, you'll find a brief introduction via a
screencast: http://www.vielsichtig.de/index.php?id=36

The source code can be found here (requiring Subversion):
http://www.vielsichtig.de/svn/public
(user: nobody / password: nobody)

Download the projects: de.vielsichtig.jfaceUtils.*. The demo projects
contains the application for the web cast. Currently, only english and
german phrases are supported.

But because these extensions are tightly bound to JFace data binding,
I'm not sure, if the Nebula project is the right audience, but I think
it's closer to controls than to data binding itself. Please apologize
again if I'm wrong.

I'd be happy to participate and include or adapt the solution to
existing controls in the nebula project.

Thanks for answers in advance and greetings

Holger Prang