Components pallet viewer

[dfayerma]

I would like to use a widget similar to the one used by the Designer for the components pallet.

Is it a propratary widget from Instantiantions or is it avaliable somwere to be reused?

[Eric Clayberg]

I would like to use a widget similar to the one used by the Designer for the components pallet. Is it a propratary widget from Instantiantions or is it avaliable somwere to be reused?

It is a internal, proprietary component of the Eclipse GEF libraries. As far as I know, it isn't available as a standalone SWT widget.

[dfayerma]

As far as I understand GEF is an open source project so
if it is part of GEF it can not be proprietary and I can use it in my code.

Am I wrong?

[Eric Clayberg]

As far as I understand GEF is an open source project so if it is part of GEF it can not be proprietary and I can use it in my code.

You can use it your code just as we are using it our code. It is not an SWT component, however, so you can't use it as a custom component in an SWT window.

Open-source does not mean non-proprietary. It is proprietary in that it is an integral part of the GEF canvas and not designed to be used outside of the GEF context. Since it is open source, you could theoretically extract it from GEF and create your own custom SWT widget, but that would be a considerable amount of work.