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'''Historical Document of the things in a running workbench'''

== Modeling the Workbench and the Things in It ==

* DOM/CSS 
** we need a simple uniform model API that can be styled much like is possible DOM and CSS
* Provider style API 
** we need some type of uniform API for imposing a view structure on a model instance, i.e., a unification of ILabelProvider, IContentProvider, IFontProvider, and so on.
* Event Bus 
** we need to make it easier to register listeners in a central location
* Commands 
** we need a uniform mechanism for changing state
* Tools for Modeling 
** we need high level tools to make it easy to develop models
* Data binding 
** we need a mechanism for mapping a model of the data onto a model of the user interface
* Constraints 
** we need ways of enforcing consistency

== Current Eclipse GUI Artifacts==

* Workbench Window(s) (sizing frame, sys menu, min/max/close button?)
** Main Menu (visible?, items)
*** Items/Sub-Menus
** Trim
*** Top Trim
**** CBanner (visible?, split/tiled?
***** Main TB
****** Toolbars(groups) (chevrons?), Sub-Menus
***** Perspective Switcher
****** Menu Button (action, context menu)
****** Perspective Buttons (radio set, chevron?)
*** Left Trim
**** Minimized Stack
*** Bottom Trim
**** StatusLine (items...)
**** Stuff (FVB, Progress...)

* Client Area (what's left over after the trim has been arranged)
** Global Views (currently called 'sticky' views)
* Perspective 
** Detached Windows for the active persp
** Main Layout (ViewSashContainer)
*** Editor Area (Visible?, state)
**** EditorSashContainer
***** EditorStack(s) (chevron)
**** Sticky Right (ViewStack)
**** ViewStack(s)
***** ToolBar
***** CTabFolder (Site..., min/max handling 'supportsState'
****** items (label, image, active?, selected?)
****** tool area
****** msg area

* Activation
** Shell->WBW->Perspective->(View/Editor)
** Editor Area (last active has no shading)
** Active part (Help)
** Menu/TB contents/state (including views)

* What you don't (sometimes):
** Detached Windows for inactive persps
** ShellPool
** Context menus
** views open in other persps
** pages(?) for non active persps
** ContainerPlaceHolders
** ViewPlaceHolders (preferred location)
** Trim in the activation chain

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