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| Re: jface support in Scout [message #1841950 is a reply to message #1841947] |
Fri, 04 June 2021 06:22   |
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Hi John
Scout moved away from the Eclipse eco system with version 5.1 (btw: the latest version of Scout today is 11). From that version on we've removed the GUI layers for RAP, SWT and Swing and also removed other dependencies to Eclipse concepts and libraries like OSGi, the JobManager, etc. JFace is a part of that eco system and we don't plan to go back. Today Scout always renders a HTML UI.
However, the main goal of JFace was to simplify the handling of the underlying SWT library and provide powerful widgets which are easy to use. That's exactly what Scout does: it gives you powerful and versatile widgets like tables, trees, forms, auto-complete fields, etc. - but you as a programmer don't have to deal with the tedious details of the UI, Scout does that for you.
So maybe it's still worth to take a closer look at Scout. Even if there is no direct support for JFace, it should be possible to migrate from JFace to Scout, since both provide a similar set of widgets. Maybe you could write an automatic migrator which transforms your java code using the JFace API into Scout code, using Scout concepts like getConfigured* and exec* methods? This will not work for every line of code, but it could work for large parts of your application.
Cheers
André
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