December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
21h 26m
English
Good UI guidelines suggest that developers construct modeless Eclipse editors and views, but there are times when a modal dialog or wizard is appropriate. This chapter lays out Eclipse’s dialog and wizard framework, discusses when a dialog or wizard should be used instead of a view or editor, provides various examples, and discusses Eclipse’s various built-in dialog classes.
Whenever information is requested from or presented to the user in a modeless fashion, it allows the user to freely interact with all the resources in the workbench. Windows, pages, editors, and views are all examples of modeless UI constructs that do not restrict the order in which the user interacts with them. ...
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