JavaFX has it's own CSS. It'll be interesting to see how the two will play 
together.

Doug.

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Our current engine implementation is specifically for SWT.

This new engine operates directly against the modelled elements — these rules 
will work regardless of the underlying widget technology (e.g., JavaFX, Vaadin, 
Qt, whatever).

Brian.

On 2-Apr-2014, at 1:50 PM, Eric Moffatt 
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Brian, I'm sure I'm missing something but most of this info is already 
available to CSS:

- The 'id' is the element id
- The element's interfaces are included as classes (i.e. MPart, MUILabel....)
- Any 'tags' are included as classes (i.e. 'draggable', 'active')

What does this new engine allow that's not already there ?

Eric



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I’ve just committed a new CSS engine that operates directly on the E4 Modelled 
Workbench to the e4 incubator e4.ui repository.  This engine works directly 
against the EMF model objects (MApplication, MWindow, MPart, etc), as compared 
to the existing SWT engine which operate against the SWT widget hierarchy.

Why would this be useful?  For example, if you don’t want the Quick Access and 
Perspective bars (bug 362420), you can add a CSS snippet like the following:

ToolControl#SearchField, ToolControl#PerspectiveSwitcher {
visibility: hidden;
}

This snippet causes the MToolControl visible=false, unlike the SWT solution 
(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=362420#c37) which hides the 
implementing composite but causes its space to still be present.

All of the modelled elements are exposed using the EMF EClass Name (e.g., 
Application, TrimmedWindow, Part, ToolControl).    The engine currently only 
exposes the MElementContainer’s children and the contents of an 
MTrimmedWindow’s TrimBars.

I’ve added support for the following properties; I chose “wm-“ as a prefix for 
properties specific to the workbench model:

  *   icon: the MUILabel iconURI property (must be a URI: e.g., 
“url(platform:/plugin/…)”)
  *   wm-label: the MUILabel label property
  *   wm-tooltip: the MUILabel tooltip property
  *   wm-toBeRendered: the MUIElement toBeRendered property
  *   visibility: the MUIElement visible property (must be “hidden” or 
“visible”)
  *   eclipse-renderer: the MUIElement’s renderer property; this should be 
renamed to “wm-renderer”, and I’m not entirely sure that it is implemented 
correctly.

And there’s some support for pseudo elements (Part:active, Part:dirty, 
Part:closeable) and element tags are exposed as CSS classes.

This new engine has been committed as two bundles, 
bundles/org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.workbench and 
tests/org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.workbench.tests to the e4.ui repository:

http://git.eclipse.org/c/e4/org.eclipse.e4.ui.git/

If you want to experiment using the CSS Scratchpad then you’ll need the latest 
org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme (>= 0.9.300) and the latest 
org.eclipse.e4.tools.css.spy bundle from the e4.ui repository.

Brian.
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