Hi Dirk,

As the developer of CalendarCombo, I agree.

I was looking at the DateTime widget and apart from look and feel the
CalendarCombo has been phased out. I'm happy about that because over the
years it developed issues that I could no longer fix (X didn't work on
Linux, Y didn't work on Mac, etc). I've tried plenty of times to work
around things but in the end it's never worked as some API just doesn't do
what I want.

Considering it's lived for more than 10 years I'd say it's had a very good
run!

Wim, maybe we should nuke it altogether? I think people should try to go
for working cross-platform widgets than those that only work on Windows
(nowadays). What do you think?

Regards,
Emil


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Dirk Fauth <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> IMHO the CalendarCombo should be put to the Incubation project to find its
> place to rest in peace. Compared to org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime, there
> seems to be no more additional value by using CalendarCombo.
>
> I might be wrong, but the value that was added by CalendarCombo in the
> past doesn't exist anymore. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Greez,
> Dirk
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Wim Jongman <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Donald,
>>
>> Thanks for the update.
>>
>> CalendarCombo is in the release project, it is created by Emil and you
>> and Emil were looking after it [1].
>>
>> I also understand that Emil was not too happy about CalendarCombo,
>> exactly for the reasons you mention now.
>>
>> Should we demote CalendarCombo and put it in the Incubation project?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wim
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula/restructure#Proposed_widgets
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Dunne, Donald G <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> XViewer and it’s tests were using the Nebuala CalendarCombo which does
>>> not work on GTK and thus Linux.  See note at the bottom of
>>> http://eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/calendarcombo/calendarcombo.php for
>>> more information.****
>>>
>>>
>>> ****
>>>
>>> Planning on switching to the org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime which
>>> supports everything but a clear button, which XViewer can implement itself.
>>> ****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> Bugzilla created at:
>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=396228****
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
>>> ** **
>>>
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