Nebula - Glimmer Custom Widget Gem

Glimmer DSL for SWT's got a new custom widget gem (containing 55+ 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 gem. Put to good use!

(keep in mind the caveat that I did not test every one of them in Glimmer, but I at least eased the hurdle of including them. Some of the custom widgets had been distributed piecemeal with Glimmer-style smart defaults and easier APIs than the built-in ones just like CDateTime. GanttChart has had some work to ease its use inside the AreWeThereYet project that could be extracted eventually into a piecemeal gem. In the meantime, you may contribute by testing and reporting any issues you encounter as well as solutions you may potentially work out)

LED Display

Badged Label

Oscilloscope

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

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

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 (or save) hundreds of thousands 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!

Happy Glimmering!