Originally Posted at: https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2021/03/nebula-glimmer-custom-widget.html
Glimmer DSL for SWT's got a new custom widget (or more accurately 55+ new custom widgets): Nebula
The Nebula Project is a collection of enterprise-grade high-quality SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) custom widgets, which are made available for use with Glimmer DSL for SWT in this Ruby gem. They cover many different widgets, such as breadcrumbs, wizard step bars, shelf groups, geo maps, and even oscilloscopes.
Thanks to Glimmer's unique DSL Auto-Expansion feature, its GUI DSL automatically grows when new custom widget libraries are imported, even if they were originally written in Java, like the Nebula Project.
Below is the list of custom widgets newly added by the Nebula Custom Widget.
Custom Date Time
PShelf
Gantt Chart
Used in Are We There Yet?
Gallery
Grid
This is a richer alternative to the table widget.
Paper Clips
Oscilloscope
PGroup
Rich Text
This is a richer alternative to the styled_text widget with some caveats (uses the browser widget behind the scenes).
Geo Map
Table Combo
XViewer
This is a richer alternative to the tree widget.
Transition
Breadcrumb
Checkbox Group
Column Browser
Dialog
This is a richer alternative to the built-in dialog widget.
Dual List
Header
Heap Manager
This shows memory usage in an application's Java Virtual Machine.
Login Dialog
Multi Choice
Notifier
Preference Window
Prompt Support
Range Slider
Rounded Toolbar
Star Rating
Text Assist
Tip of The Day
Titled Separator
Calculator
Horizontal Spinner
Launcher
Panels
Switch Button
Progress Circle
Nebula Slider
This is a richer alternative to the built-in slider widget.
Split Button
This is an alternative to the combo widget.
Rounded Checkbox
This is an alternative to the checkbox widget (aka check or button(:check) widget).
Floating Text
Password Revealer
Custom Tree Combo
Badged Label
LED Display
Step Bar
Chips
Carousel
Font Awesome
Rounded Switch
Nat Table
A higher-performant alternative to the built-in table widget.
Glimmer DSL for SWT is more than feature-complete. It is enterprise-grade-complete! As such, Glimmer absolutely outdoes its competition in the Ruby world, and I would dare say the entire desktop development world. No other GUI library comes even close to what Glimmer DSL for SWT offers in terms of productivity, readability, maintainability, and extensibility. Think of it like this! While some other libraries are still learning how to wear shoes, Glimmer DSL for SWT has learned to run, drive a car, fly an airplane, launch rockets into space, and zoom at light speed!!! The sky is the limit with Glimmer DSL for SWT. You could think up any desktop application custom widget or custom shape, and your wish is Glimmer DSL for SWT's command with the absolute minimum syntax possible! Go ahead world and make trillions of dollars in service of others by leveraging Glimmer!
I envision Glimmer DSL for SWT to eventually have thousands if not millions of custom widget gems made by the community. As long as they follow the “glimmer-cw-name-namespace” convention, they can be discovered and listed by the “glimmer list:gems:customwidget” command automatically when needed. So, while software developers are too busy crawling in other frameworks, Glimmer DSL for SWT users and software engineers will be delivering excellent service to their customers at warp speed!
Here are some articles to get started with Glimmer DSL for SWT:
Happy Glimmering!
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