I'm very interested in Nicolas' SAT project as I would like to integrate it with Glimmer <http://www.eclipse.org/glimmer>, but I thought it was just an experiment that would be made irrelevant by the next version of SWT since I heard it has animation support. Is that true? Andy
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM, Jeremy Dowdall <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > A bit of background - Nicolas is in the process of getting his animation > toolkit work, SAT, through an IP review, and I'm working on a proposed > sub-project of Nebula called the Custom Widget Toolkit (CWT) to provide a > home for tools (like SAT) that help us build better widgets. > > There has also been some more discussion about the future direction of the > Nebula project itself and how to deal with its scattered release schedule. > Tom has mentioned adding a subproject, called Incubation, that will host > new / experimental / whatever widgets that are not ready to join a single > unified release schedule. The base Nebula project will then be comprised > only of mature widgets ready to do an official release with a review and > all. > The proposed CWT would be a second subproject: > > - Nebula > - Incubation > - CWT > > Whether CWT is released in-phase with Nebula or not is something for > thought and discussion. > > Nicolas mentioned that he'd like his animation toolkit to be accessible to > more than just Gallery. After looking it over I asked if he'd be > interesting in having it be a part of CWT and he agreed that it seemed to > fit there rather well. Tom then mentioned we should bring this discussion > back to the newsgroup because there are other people here who may like to > contribute. I'm sure he's right on that - the topic of reusable widget code > has been bounced around here before, and everyone one of the Nebula > committers have written something that we all could have used. > > The CWT project proposal: http://www.aspencloud.com/cwt > The initial code came out of the CDateTime rewrite (whose CQ has just been > approved today so code should be hitting CVS this weekend) but with the > addition of things like SAT, that's just a start. > > So, as widget developers, what do people think about a project like this? > > - What features would you find most helpful? > - What features have you been working on that would benefit other > Nebula components? > - How do we coordinate it with SWT's development? For instance, Chris > G. mentioned an animation toolkit may be on the table for e4 - has anyone > talked with any SWT dev about this? > - What about accessing SWT's internal classes? I've been using several > to get at things SWT probably won't open up - how do we deal with issues > like this? > > All questions and comments welcome, > Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev > > -- //Obtiva - Agility Applied. Software Delivered. www.obtiva.com
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