Great to hear, Laurent. Looking forward to your update. :-) On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Laurent Caron <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Lars, > > First of all I'm happy you enjoyed the widgets... And happy that you it > gives you new ideas for RCP Applications! > > I worked on this kind of widget in my previous company, as a POC that was > unfortunately not used in production. The tool took 2 parameters: a label > and a text widget.The animation started when the text widget had focus. > The code was not very clean but it was functionnal. > > I have to contact my former colleagues to check if this work could be open > sourced... Because it was not used, I do not think that it will be a > problem. > > Please stay tuned, > > Laurent > > > 2018-03-19 13:19 GMT+01:00 Lars Vogel <[email protected]>: >> >> Hello, my fellow Nebula developers, >> >> Looking at the awesome new editions from Laurent to the Nebula library >> (many thanks to Laurent for that) triggered a desire for a new SWT >> widget. ;-) >> >> Did someone in this group already created a "FloatingText" widget? In >> such a widget the message hint in the text fields animates to the top >> of the input field as soon as the user gives focus to it. >> >> This is heavily used in Android. See >> >> https://www.androidhive.info/2015/09/android-material-design-floating-labels-for-edittext/ >> or an example video. IMHO it creates a very nice experience for users >> as it allows very condense UIs. Eclipse UIs could benefit quite a bit >> from that in my opinion. >> >> My current (lame) implementation is a compound composite wrapping a >> label and a text field and moving the content of the text field to the >> label once the user gives focus to the text field. I'm happy to share >> it, but it is really trivial and misses the animation. >> >> Did someone already created such a FloatingText" widget? If not would >> my trivial widget interesting for Nebula, maybe as a starting point >> for something more advanced? If yes, could you share your >> implementation? >> >> Best regards, Lars >> >> >> -- >> Eclipse Platform project co-lead >> CEO vogella GmbH >> >> Haindaalwisch 17a, 22395 Hamburg >> Amtsgericht Hamburg: HRB 127058 >> Geschäftsführer: Lars Vogel, Jennifer Nerlich de Vogel >> USt-IdNr.: DE284122352 >> Fax (040) 5247 6322, Email: [email protected], Web: >> http://www.vogella.com >> _______________________________________________ >> nebula-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe >> from this list, visit >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > To change your delivery options, retrieve your password, or unsubscribe from > this list, visit > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev
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