[brailleblaster] Re: JFace and MVC for SWT widgets
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:34 -0500
Susan,
Thanks for looking into this. I looked at Jface myself a while back,
but it seemed to me that it dealt mostly with tables and graphics. If it
is less complex tghan StyledText that is al to the good. I'll have a
look at the article you linked tgo.
John
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:29:12AM -0600, Susan Jolly wrote:
> I have been becoming more and more convinced that the issues of deal with
> the content of a StyledText widget are more complicated than they should be.
>
> After reading some more, I've learned something I should have already known
> if I were going to use SWT and that is that SWT and JFace are meant to go
> together. SWT is just widgets, i.e. the view. JFace, which like SWT can
> be used independently of Eclipse, provides model-view-controller
> functionality for using the SWT widgets.
>
> Right now I'm trying to understand this better by reading this article:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecgui1/
>
> Susan
>
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John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer
Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
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