• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Apr 05 2008
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> Apr 06 2008
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> Apr 20 2008
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> Apr 21 2008

Is there anything like wxWidgets' AUI toolkit for DWT?
It has dockable, drag & droppable panels for making IDE-like apps.

I see something called JFace and sleak in the dwt-addons project.  They 
didn't compile for me, but are either of those supposed to be such a 
library?

--bb

Bill Baxter schrieb:
 Is there anything like wxWidgets' AUI toolkit for DWT?
 It has dockable, drag & droppable panels for making IDE-like apps.
 
 I see something called JFace and sleak in the dwt-addons project.  They 
 didn't compile for me, but are either of those supposed to be such a 
 library?
 
 --bb


JFace is not yet completed and it does not contain the docking stuff you 
are looking for. But perhaps, if JFace is working, its not much left to 
get the missing stuff ported from the eclipse source.

JFace adds
  - Model-View-Control for String,List,Table,Tree with sort and filter
  - resource management for images,fonts,colors
  - Preference Dialogs
  - Wizards
  - long running operation support
  - Actions, commands and key binding schemes.
  - Field assist


However, if you only need to have split windows and tabs, you can use 
"SashForm" and "CTabFolder". E.g. Poseidon is a pure DWT application.

Frank Benoit wrote:
 Bill Baxter schrieb:
 Is there anything like wxWidgets' AUI toolkit for DWT?
 It has dockable, drag & droppable panels for making IDE-like apps.

 I see something called JFace and sleak in the dwt-addons project.  
 They didn't compile for me, but are either of those supposed to be 
 such a library?

 --bb


 JFace is not yet completed and it does not contain the docking stuff you 
 are looking for. But perhaps, if JFace is working, its not much left to 
 get the missing stuff ported from the eclipse source.
 
 JFace adds
  - Model-View-Control for String,List,Table,Tree with sort and filter
  - resource management for images,fonts,colors
  - Preference Dialogs
  - Wizards
  - long running operation support
  - Actions, commands and key binding schemes.
  - Field assist
 
 
 However, if you only need to have split windows and tabs, you can use 
 "SashForm" and "CTabFolder". E.g. Poseidon is a pure DWT application.


By that you mean pure "classic" DWT, right?  I see things like import 
DWT.all, which aren't part of "new" DWT.

But anyway, yeh, that's exactly the kind of thing I'm after. I'll have 
to dig further through the source to see how they do it.

--bb

Bill Baxter Wrote:
 By that you mean pure "classic" DWT, right?  I see things like import 
 DWT.all, which aren't part of "new" DWT.


pure/classic... yes, i mean the dwt without the dwt-addons
The Poseidon is made with the port from Shawn. So it is phobos and SWT 3.0.2.
The source code structure is a bit different from the stuff the new DWT is. But
in general it works the same way.

Would be nice to have Poseidon running on the new DWT.