| Opening a GEF (or SWT) design pallet? [message #92744] |
Fri, 05 September 2003 12:24  |
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Originally posted by: jkrepsBEAR.FISHneb.rr.com
So far, the only way I can design SWT apps is to code them from scratch:
coding --> running --> taking notes ---> editing code to reflect noted
changes ---> running ... etc., is not a very efficient way to create a GUI
application.
What I would like to do is open a blank 'canvas' and start dropping wigets
on it to create the UI that I want. When I attempt to open a new project
I am not offered the SWT (or GEF) option. Both SWT and GEF plugins are
installed, how do I access them in a graphical mode?
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GrayGeek
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| Re: Opening a GEF (or SWT) design pallet? [message #92894 is a reply to message #92820] |
Sun, 07 September 2003 23:34  |
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Originally posted by: scheglov_ke.nlmk.ru
GrayGeek <jkrepsBEAR@fishneb.rr.com> wrote:
> That's what I've gathered from this newsgroup.
> I have been experiementing with swt-designer most of the evening and into
> the night. I attempted to create a TabFolder with four TabItems on it,
> and some labels and textboxes on each tab. I never got beyond the four
> tabs because the design canvase shrank down to about 50 pixels square and I
> couldn't find a way to expand it back to 500 x 375 again, so it was
> impossible to use after that.
When convas shrinks to small size this means usually some exception during
preparing of image. Look it PDE error log (in view or directly in file
..metadata/.log).
> If the swt-designer is the best GPL'd gui rad tool for eclipse available,
> I've come to the opinion that hand coding a UI is faster and more reliable
> than the swt-designer (my appologies to whom ever wrote it) because
> swt-designer crashes too much.
Do you know, that best method to remove bugs is contact with author and
give him exception traces? :-)
I use Designer myself for two applications and feel that I already can not
live without it. Write again all these GridData gd = new GridData(...) ?
No-no-no. :-)
So please, describe your situation in bug report and let us to fix it.
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SY, Konstantin.
Advanced Eclipse SWT Designer (http://www.swt-designer.com)
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