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Christian Campo
Eclipse Summit - October 2009

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Riena UI – Vision – Motivation for SWT/Qt

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Riena UI – Vision – Motivation for SWT/Qt

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Riena UI – Vision – Motivation for SWT/Qt

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SWT/Qt
 Styling is important
 E4 CSS effort
 After some investigation...
 New SWT platform based on Qt for Windows
 License issues (Qt is dual-licensed as LGPL and a commercial
license)
 Qt versus QtJambi
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E4 CSS contact demo
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SWT/Qt CSS styling
 CSS applied to the toolkit not to SWT
 CSS is toolkit dependent
 Qt is available on all major platforms but not a „native“
implementation as Win32, GTK or Cocoa
 QtJambi was chosen over Qt
 (eSWT has chosen to implement against Qt directly)
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Experiment – SWT Platform on QT
Riena Client
RCP
Equinox SWT
QT Jambi
QT
SWT Client
CSS
QPushButton {
border: 1px solid #8993b2;
border-radius: 3px;
background-color: qlineargradient(x1 : 0, y1 : 0, x2 : 0, y2 : 1, stop : 1 #c5cae6, stop :0 #fcfcfe);
min-width: 80px;
height: 20 px;
}

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Demo