Re: [platform-ui-dev] Wizard activity or plans?

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

When I was in Toronto recently, Tim deBoer mentioned that the Websphere 
products have their own enhanced wizard framework to work around some of 
the limitations of the one in JFace, although we didn't have time to get 
into much detail.

The UI team does not currently have anything in the R3.0 plan for making 
major improvements to the wizard framework.  There are a couple of plan 
items that involve incremental improvements, such as adding affordances to 
indicate required fields in wizards and dialogs (a committed plan item, 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37667), and to show a TOC 
for wizard pages (currently deferred, 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36947).

It would be good to understand the raison(s) d'etre for the enhancements 
in WSDD, and look at whether it makes sense to push some of these down 
into JFace or the Workbench.
I suggest capturing this in a feature request against Platform UI.

Thanks,
Nick




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Greetings from RTP: 

WSSD folks have been using a locally-developed wizard framework to 
make development of complex and extensible wizards faster/better since 
5.0. It provides ways to, e.g., get model (in the MVC sense) data, do 
validation, and generate artifacts. We're now considering extending it 
to make it more general, so we're interested in knowing what, if any, 
plans youse have in this space. 

If this is a FAQ, or is better asked elsewhere, please lemme know. The 
only thing I've noticed regarding this topic is 

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-ui-home/R3_0/main.html 

> Evolve the Eclipse user experience 
<snip> 
> * Lighter-weight dialogs and wizards. 

but that's dated Thu Oct 30 22:05:48 2003