I think it would be good for the visibility of Nebula if the jars would ship again and Nebula would be visible by default in the pallet of SWT designer.
I was promoted to WB committer a while ago so we could make this happen ourselves. However, I don't have the cycles to do this alone. [image: Inline image 1] On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Wim Jongman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ivan, > > Some of the Nebula widgets are supported in windowbuilder, but not all of > them. > > Please see part of the conversation I had with Eric below [3]. Since we > are now released the jars could ship again with WB. > > Best regards, > > Wim > > see also > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9781333/how-to- > enable-nebula-widgets-in-designers-palette-of-eclipse-indigo > [2] https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/ > NewComponentsTutorial.pdf > > [3] > > Wim, > > Nice to hear from you. > > I am the co-lead of the Nebula project. I wonder if we can do something >> to integrate the Nebula widgets into Windowbuilder. > > > Actually, we already have a fair amount of Nebula integration already in > WB. Prior to open sourcing WB, we actually shipped the Nebula jars with > WB and had those widgets show up in a category in the WB palette. Once > the project moved to Eclipse, the Eclipse IP folks told us that we could > not ship those jars anymore. We did keep the Nebula support in place > however, so, if you add the nebula jars to your project classpath, the > Nebula palette should show up in WB as shown here... > > https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/wbpro/palettes/swt_palette > > https://developers.google.com/java-dev-tools/wbpro/palettes/ > images/palette_nebula.gif > > > The actual Nebula support code in WB can be found here: > > http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/tools/org.eclipse.windowbuild > er/trunk/org.eclipse.wb.rcp.nebula/ > > > ...and the palette definition itself is here... > > http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/tools/org.eclipse.windowbuild > er/trunk/org.eclipse.wb.rcp.nebula/plugin.xml > > > ...and most of the widget attributes are defined in XML files found here... > > http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/tools/org.eclipse.windowbuild > er/trunk/org.eclipse.wb.rcp.nebula/wbp-meta/org/eclipse/nebula/ > > I was thinking of some kind of automatic discovery process or a special >> way of advertising the widgets to Windowbuilder. Do you have any thoughts >> on this? > > > I have not tried loading the Nebula widgets into WB in quite awhile, but > I hope it still works (if not, we need to fix that). > > Going forward, it would be great to get someone on the Nebula side > involved to help maintain the WB integration code as well. Aside from the > few widgets that need complex layout behavior (like tables with columns), > integrating a new widget is very simple and just involves adding/tweaking > XML files. Lots of examples exist for all of the current widgets. > > Regards, > > -Eric > > >
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