Glimmer Style Guide

• Widgets are declared with underscored lowercase versions of their SWT names minus the SWT package name.
• Widget declarations may optionally have arguments and be followed by a block (to contain properties and content)
• Widget blocks are always declared with curly braces
• Widget arguments are always wrapped inside parentheses
• Widget properties are declared with underscored lowercase versions of the SWT properties
• Widget property declarations always have arguments and never take a block
• Widget property arguments are never wrapped inside parentheses
• Widget listeners are always declared starting with on_ prefix and affixing listener event method name afterwards in underscored lowercase form. Their multi-line blocks rely on the do; end style.
• Widget listeners are always followed by a block using curly braces (Only when declared in DSL. When invoked on widget object directly outside of GUI declarations, standard Ruby conventions apply)
• Data-binding is done via bind keyword, which always takes arguments wrapped in parentheses
• Custom widget body, before_body, and after_body blocks open their blocks and close them with curly braces.
• Custom widgets receive additional keyword arguments called options, which come after the SWT styles.
• Pure logic multi-line blocks that do not constitute GUI DSL view elements (such as Thread.new, loop, each and observe blocks) rely on the do; end style to clearly separate logic code from view code.