Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] CSS DOM Binding

["olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yves,

3 years ago, I wrote a engine displaying SWT control based on 
declarative XUL http://www.wazaabi.org.
Using this, when the user changed the DOM the display changes were 
reflected and interacting with display had impact on DOM (both sides).

This time I prefer to use EMF instead XML for several reasons including 
proxies, API and model 2 model tools, eclipse integration.

The model I wrote  is like an EMF rewrite of the SWT API (and forms, 
nebula, miglayout ...)
I choose this way to be able to extend the model as fast as possible (of 
course, when the engine will be stable ;-) )


Of course, I would like to be compatible with XUL and XAML, for me there 
is 2 different level of compatibility :

1°) persistance compatibility, which is not so hard to obtain (by hand 
or using m2m tools)
2°) running compatibility, I did not work on that, my be using thing 
like EMF2DOM adapter ????

I am afraid that only running compatibility will be usefull for users 
since many XUL or XAML event handlers are using DOM or XPATH methods ....

Olivier

yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx a écrit :
> I have put my comments on the "Declarative UI" wiki page. I have dealed
> with two subjects:
>    - CSS solutions
>    - Markup languages
>
> Olivier, have you looked at the existing solutions before starting new
> one, such as XUL, JSF, XSWT and XAML?
>
> Cheers
> yves
>   
> > Olivier, that sounds great. Please add it to the wiki. Just fyi - your
> > project needs to license the code under the EPL to be able to contribute
> > to e4.
> >
> > And one more question: Are you using GEF for the tooling or for the
> > runtime side?
> >
> > Jochen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: eclipse-incubator-e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:eclipse-incubator-e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > olivier@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:17 AM
> > To: E4 developer list
> > Subject: Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] CSS DOM Binding
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> > I started, few monthes ago, a new open source project using EMF & GEF as a
> > base for a Declarative UI engine.
> > Do you think I should add things to this wiki ?
> > My project is at the moment a POC (and probably less than that), I try to
> > validate every declarative UI requirements before to start to publish it
> > ;-)
> >
> > Olivier
> >
> > Christopher Aniszczyk a écrit :
> >     
> > > Angelo, I quickly glanced over your technique of CSS/SWT. I noticed
> > > you used the method of adding a Display filter on SWT.Show events to
> > > do the styling. Is there a better way to do this? Do we need something
> > > from SWT to give a better notification of lifecycle than what we have
> > > now? Maybe the venerable SWT team can answer this question.
> > >
> > > Maybe someone can get the various methods of styling out there
> > > currently so we can learn about them:
> > > http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/DeclarativeUI
> > >
> > > What do you think Angelo? Want to put your technique on the wiki so
> > > people learn about it?
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Angelo zerr <angelo.zerr@xxxxxxxxx
> > > <mailto:angelo.zerr@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Hi sorry
> > >
> > >     for my new mail about TK-UI
> > >     <http://tk-ui.sourceforge.net/index.html>, but I have started
> > >     TK-UI features <http://tk-ui.sourceforge.net/features.html>
> > >     documentation
> > >     where I speak about DOM, CSS and Databinding into TK-UI.
> > >     Is it possible to add the TK-UI features
> > >     <http://tk-ui.sourceforge.net/features.html> link to the
> > >     E4/Modeling <http://wiki.eclipse.org/E4/Modeling>?
> > >
> > >     Don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions.
> > >
> > >     Regards Angelo
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > ~ Chris Aniszczyk
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