[sarikan]

Ok, this may sound a little bit weird, but I am very much interested in a gui framework that I can customize. As far as I know, it is possible to extend the visual editor of eclipse to build a custom gui designer, say which saves definition of gui to xml etc..
Is it possible to use Matisse for Eclipse for such projects? I really really like Matisse, and I would love to be able to build somehing on matisse for eclipse. Am I a dreamer, or do such possibilites exist?
Best Regards
Seref Arikan

[Riyad Kalla]

As far as I know, it is possible to extend the visual editor of eclipse to build a custom gui designer, say which saves definition of gui to xml etc..

Yes, the VE team is very extension-friendly.

Is it possible to use Matisse for Eclipse for such projects? I really really like Matisse, and I would love to be able to build somehing on matisse for eclipse. Am I a dreamer, or do such possibilites exist?

Absolutely, but you would need to do the porting work of Matisse over to Eclipse on your own. At this time we don’t expose our M4M product for public consumption. You would have to decide if that is work you wanted to undertake or not which might help make the decision easier.

[sicflex]

That seems like a good idea. BUT have you seem the generated code for a Matisse form, it is enormously big and quite complex, it does a good job at moving, resizing and manipulating objects, but has a little mind of its own. You’ll encounter some issues regarding the precise position and size of controls (as many other layouts fail too). In my opinion Matisse is a decent tool/package/layout for creating GUI forms nothing more (I might be wrong).

Matisse is also part of the open source Netbeans ide.

[sarikan]

Well, thanks for the comments. I know a little about matisse, actually I have been waiting for it for a long time as a netbeans user. I was pretty surprised to hear that it was ported to eclipse, and aside from all the discussions about how gui builders should work, I think it’s good piece of work.
My point in general is, as the guys behind this work, you can choose to let your users extend you work. Of course that means another workload for support, but If you choose to do so, your users may come up with new extensions to you work, which will make myeclipse an even better solution. (which is the main idea that brought myeclipse to daylight, is it not?)
I realize that this is your choice, but I don’t have time to port matisse on my own, and I would like to have the option to add something on your work. Just a comment.
Thanks for the great job anyway

Seref

[ragnarwestad]

Just have to throw in my support for Seref’s request.
I too would really like to see the Matisse Eclipse port be open sourced.

Any new thoughts on this since July?
And, feel free to throw in MyUml too … 😉

/Ragnar

[Riyad Kalla]

Ragnar,
There hasn’t been a huge level of interest from the community in us open sourcing the tools, so I don’t think anything has changed.

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