[e4-dev] Re: CSS relationship to e4 workbench

2009-04-06 Thread Gunnar Wagenknecht
Kevin McGuire schrieb: > 1) The use of optional dependencies is cool, but makes writing more code > here tricky since it must be reflective which is brutal to write (I > believe Boris has a "reflectify" refactor but that only helps the first > time and change/debug is still a challenge). It also i

[e4-dev] +1 for Vineet Sinha

2009-04-06 Thread portal on behalf of Kevin Barnes
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Re: [e4-dev] CSS Engine and CSS3 SAC Parser with FreeCC?

2009-04-06 Thread Kevin McGuire
Good error reporting tracing back to the source location is a definite must. Code completion would also be nice. Another technical direction worth considering is to use XText (http://wiki.eclipse.org/Xtext). Tom Schindl and others were doing some preliminary hacking on an XText based CSS pars

[e4-dev] CSS relationship to e4 workbench

2009-04-06 Thread Kevin McGuire
(Was titled: "[e4-dev] API for Workbench Model" in response to Kai's question but realized the topic was larger, especially see #1 below) > I want to enhance my contacts demo to dynamically create menu items for all styles in a given directory. > Right now there is no Java API for that. Any tho

Re: [e4-dev] SWT Styling/Theming

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Northover
The only platform that does not support setParent() is Motif. Advanced graphics are supported on Linux and Unix platforms that have cairo installed. > c) I am not sure if this is possible, but SWT could probably enhance things like menu or table header with styling capabilities, This would b

[e4-dev] +1 for Kai Toedter

2009-04-06 Thread portal on behalf of Bogdan Gheorghe
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Re: [e4-dev] SWT Styling/Theming

2009-04-06 Thread Eric Moffatt
Jeremy, as far as your question on advanced graphics support goes the only 'official' thing I know is that I'm allowed to use 'setParent'. Steve, do all the platforms that support reparenting also support advanced graphics? Note that you can already use the advanced graphics in 3.x if you want,