The E4 User Interface is a modeled application. This means that all graphical elements you see in the screen are rendered from a model that contains the description of each element. In this talk we explain the details of the model and show examples of using it to create RCP applications and the current Eclipse WorkbenchWindow layout. We also demonstrate how you can exploit this design when developing your code. For example, you will see that changes in the model are immediately reflected on running applications, enabling a great deal of power to implement UI managing strategies. We'll also discuss the overlap between the model and the CSS layer. The former captures "structural" information such as the views that are available in each stack while the latter is responsible for defining the stylistic "look" of the elements.
This video was recorded at EclipseCon 2009.
Total running time 40:59 minutes
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