Re: [Xswt-developer] Xswt-developer Digest, Vol 3, Issue 4

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David, 

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 21:32:02 -0500
> From: "David J. Orme" <dj...@co...>
> Subject: [Xswt-developer] Feedback: Should we focus on supporting RCP
only? 
> 
> Might we want to make XSWT support Eclipse plugins *only*?  
> ie: to have an explicit linkage to the Eclipse platform?

I'll have to think about this. My first thought is that I would have liked
us to support Windows Mobile with eSWT, but I'm not sure how realistic that
is.

> ------------------------------
> Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:31:50 -0500
> From: "David J. Orme" <dj...@co...>
> Subject: Re: [Xswt-developer] Xswt-developer Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5
> 
> Right now I think there's no way to define a style for a layoutData?

No, I guess it's because property nodes (tags) don't use the stylesheet
mechanism.

> What I think I wanted to write in the style sheet was the following:
> 
> <composite>
>    <layoutData x:id="grabHorizontal" x:class="gridData" bla 
> bla bla/> </composite>
> 
> Then I could have the following in a regular XSWT file:
> 
> <composite>
>   <layoutData x:style="styles.grabHorizontal"/> </composite>
> 
> which would be much more concise than the usual bag of 
> attributes that normally come with grabbing horizontally.  
> :-)  I don't know if this is hard in the current 
> implementation, but notice that the meta x:class attribute is 
> implicitly included in the style too.
> 
> Does this make sense?  Do you agree that this is a good idea?

Aha! I was confused since in your suggestion markup in the test file it was
the wrapping composite tag that had the x:id="grabHorizontal" attribute.

It wasn't very difficult, just a matter of inserting stylesheet handling
code in processNodeProperty. I'll commit support for this later today,
including a test case:

In a stylesheet:

	<layoutData x:id="grabHorizontal" x:class="gridData"
grabExcessHorizontalSpace="true" horizontalAlignment="FILL"/>

Using the style:

		<layoutData x:style="grabHorizontal"/>

Hallvard