TextBlock

[shoes]

TextBlock

[ashbb]

Wow, great!
As you know now, we've also discussed about TextBlock on this thread. We have to implement TextBlock in separate Stack and Flow. Implementing TextBlock on Stack is easy, but on Flow is a bit tough. ;-)

[wasnotrice]

@davorb awesome. Let us know how it's going!

[davorb]

@wasnotrice Basically the text boxes work right now. I've been spending the day researching the stack/flow issue. Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it seems like it is a separate issue not that related to implementation of the text boxes themselves.

I'm going to do some work on finishing up the styles and making sure that they're working as intended. I'll push some code to a separate branch tomorrow so you guys can have a look.

[wasnotrice]

@davorb the stack/flow issue is related to the textboxes because the main difficulty in the layout is how to deal with textboxes that are (because of wrapping) not rectangular. But I agree that might not be the textbox's responsibility.

[davorb]

Been working on this today. It's been one of those cases where I'm 90% done 90% of the time, so you're going to have to hold out one more day before I upload the code.

However, it's clear at this point that I'm not going to be able to implement a bunch of styles before we've decided on how the layouters are going to function and before they've been written. As someone else mentioned in that thread, swt seems pretty wed to the idea that everything is a rectangle; I'm not sure how we're going to solve some of those issues. I guess the worst case scenario will be merging and splitting the boxes.

[wasnotrice]

@davorb that's ok. As you have noticed, all of the elements that are implemented are only partially functional. We'll get there!