UI element name ?
Hey there,
I am not sure if this is the right section to post this, but I couldn't find more appropriate one.
Could anybody help me with UI element name found in jazz web UI?
This element can be seen here:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rtczhelp/v2r0m0/topic/com.ibm.team.platform.doc/images/web-ui.gif
You can see left yellowish navigation area with a vertical "slider", which you can move to resize the area (also you can double click it, to auto-collapse the area to the left border).
What is the appropriate name for this "slider"?
I am curious if this can also be implemented in Eclipse framework.
Thank you in advance.
Cheers,
Andy
I am not sure if this is the right section to post this, but I couldn't find more appropriate one.
Could anybody help me with UI element name found in jazz web UI?
This element can be seen here:
You can see left yellowish navigation area with a vertical "slider", which you can move to resize the area (also you can double click it, to auto-collapse the area to the left border).
What is the appropriate name for this "slider"?
I am curious if this can also be implemented in Eclipse framework.
Thank you in advance.
Cheers,
Andy
2 answers
Hi Andy,
I don't think it has an official name, as it's part of a larger widget called SideNavigationLayout which a sort of container widget that has space to put things in the left navigation section and the main content area. In the internal code, it's called the show/hide/resize control. Though this widget was written very early on and shouldn't be taken as an example of a good widget.
I think the general term for this type of control is a "sash". SWT (the widget toolkit used by Eclipse) has a Sash widget, so it should be possible to do this in Eclipse. If if doesn't work exactly the way you like, you can actually implement your own with Composites/Canvases, and mouse listeners and other lower-level API. I'm sure someone else has probably already wanted something like this before, so you can try searching or asking on the Eclipse newsgroups.
Thanks,
Curt
I don't think it has an official name, as it's part of a larger widget called SideNavigationLayout which a sort of container widget that has space to put things in the left navigation section and the main content area. In the internal code, it's called the show/hide/resize control. Though this widget was written very early on and shouldn't be taken as an example of a good widget.
I think the general term for this type of control is a "sash". SWT (the widget toolkit used by Eclipse) has a Sash widget, so it should be possible to do this in Eclipse. If if doesn't work exactly the way you like, you can actually implement your own with Composites/Canvases, and mouse listeners and other lower-level API. I'm sure someone else has probably already wanted something like this before, so you can try searching or asking on the Eclipse newsgroups.
Thanks,
Curt