Integrating JavaFX 2.0 with Swing and SWT
One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT. Several online resources document how this is done. These include Integrating JavaFX into...
View ArticleRichText editor component for SWT based applications
This article will go through the task of implementing our own RichText editor component with SWT. I faced the need for such a visual component when developing a desktop based application for one of my...
View ArticleResponsive UIs with Eclipse and SWT
Recently I had the problem that my ‘well-conceived’ view design did not scale down reasonably. I realized that the flexibility to arrange viewparts in stacks of arbitrary sizes in an Eclipse workbench...
View ArticleClean SWT Listener Notifcations with SWTEventHelper
Writing tests for SWT based UIs often requires to notify widget listeners programmatically. Unfortunately the code to create, initialize and finally to trigger the event is a bit verbose and distracts...
View ArticleHow to Safely Use SWT’s Display asyncExec
Most user interface (UI) toolkits are single-threaded and SWT is no exception. This means that UI objects must be accessed exclusively from a single thread, the so-called UI thread. On the other hand,...
View ArticleSWT Mouse Click Implementation
Doing a bit of SWT custom widget development lately, I stumbled across the question why is there no such thing as a default SWT mouse click listener? As this subject raises once in a while, I thought...
View ArticleSacrilege – a Custom SWT Scrollbar
SWT is a thin abstraction layer on top of native OS widgets. Which is a very good thing if you intent that your applications integrate well with the OS look and feel. But as a trade-off this approach...
View ArticleSWT Look and Feel: Customize FlatScrollBar Color and More
Recently I introduced a custom slider control useful for improving the SWT look and feel of more subtle view layouts. Happily it seems the widget already found early adopters outside of the Code Affine...
View ArticleSWT ScrolledComposite Explained
Like a friend of mine once put it, SWTs ScrolledComposite is a nasty beast. And to some point I do agree. This is likely the reason why there are so many questions asked about how to use this widget....
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