Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] Describe your UI with XMl (XUL, XHTML...)

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Angelo,

So my initial reaction is:
1) Great!
2) Come to the summit!

I'd not heard of your project but your new feature list is right on target
for things that we care about (well, except the Swing part <g>).
 Declarative technologies, XForms, CSS, XUL, ... cross compiling SWT...
these are all important to us.

I think its going to take some time
for folks to look at your project to provide a more in depth reply.  But
look, in the meantime you should think about coming to the summit.  Just
the CSS engine alone with the right licensing, care and fed, would be a
huge boon to e4.  And on and on.  It seems you've done lots of
work, and could contribute lots in either code or first hand technical
experience.

Cheers,
Kevin

"Angelo zerr" <angelo.zerr@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi,
I post mail into E4 mailling list, because you will be perhaps inetrested
with my work.

I'm Akrogen
developer wih is Eclipse plugin to generate
code. With Akrogen you can describe your Eclipse wizard with XML/XUL and
_javascript_ and you can link to template (Freemarker, Velocity or XSL) or
ANT task to generate the code you want.

I'm dvelopping new features for Akrogen and I have created TK-UI
project (sorry for the moment only frensh translation is available) to
manage a lot of thing like : 
* decribe your UI with XML with any XML grammar (XUL, XForms, XHTML, XAML....)
*render the XML description into SWT or Swing.
* manage CSS styling.
* manage Databinding to bind for instance _javascript_ object or DOM with
UI controls (I'm using JFace Databinding to manage that).

I have developped CSS Engine which is able to apply styles for SWT or Swing
UI. So you can use the CSS Engine with pur SWT or Swing Java code.

If you want test CSS Engine with SWT you can download Eclipse project :

CSS Engine core : http://tk-ui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tk-ui/org.akrogen.tkui.css/trunk/org.akrogen.tkui.css.core

SWT Engine implemenation : http://tk-ui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tk-ui/org.akrogen.tkui.css/trunk/org.akrogen.tkui.css.swt

You can launch test/org/akrogen/tkui/css/swt/examples/csseditors/CSSEditorSWTWidgets.java
which is sample of CSS editor with SWT.This sample show that CSS Engine
can apply CSS styles at runtime. (Change the CSS styles textarea content
to apply styles).

If you are interested with my work, don't hesitate to contact me.

Regards Angelo

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