Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
Articles:
- Creating Toolbars Using SWT by Tim Hatton - [Clicks: 107]
In this PDF excerpt, Tim dissects the final element that end users expect to see in a well-designed window: the toolbar. Each step is explained simply yet thorougly as you are guided through creating the toolbar, toolbar buttons, a complete toolbar example, and making the buttons work by adding listeners. In addition, you can learn how to add separators as well as check and radio tools while getting a glimpse at the actual page by page layout of the book.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/swt_ch4/index.html - Dec, 2004 - Use SWT Listener Classes Effectively for Responsive Java Uis by Raghu Donepudi - [Clicks: 39]
By using the SWT listener classes effectively as this article prescribes, you can win the hearts of your Java application users with highly responsive GUIs.
[Includes example code]
http://www.devx.com/DevX/Article/22264 - Oct, 2004 - You Don't Have to Swing to Make Great Java Uis by Raghu Donepudi - [Clicks: 39]
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) provides five different layout managers to help you create complex, flexible user interfaces for your Java apps. Find out about all five of them in this article.
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21939 - Sep, 2004 - SWT/JFace in Action: GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0 by Matthew Scarpino, Stephen Holder, Stanford Ng, Laurent Mihalkovic - [Clicks: 92]
This guide provides an in-depth coverage of Eclipse’s new capability for building graphical user interfaces: the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and JFace, version 3.0. These award-winning tools have received broad support for creating desktop applications. With theory and practical examples, this book will teach you how to build GUIs that combine the look and feel of native interfaces with the platform-independence of Java. The authors have investigated the Eclipse source code at length to provide an expert understanding of the subject.
http://www.manning.com/catalog/view.php?book=scarpino - Aug, 2004 - SWT Creates Fast, Native-looking GUIs for Your Java Apps by Raghu Donepudi - [Clicks: 46]
Learn how the open source Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) enables client-side Java applications to assume the interfaces and performance of traditional native desktop applications. Then use it to build highly responsive, GUI-rich Java applications.
[Includes source code]
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21453 - Jul, 2004 - Use SWT for data entry by Gervase Gallant - [Clicks: 61]
The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is the open source windowing toolkit that drives Eclipse. Written in Java with JNI (Java Native Interface) classes calling native windowing APIs, SWT lets you write native GUI applications using Java. Unlike Java AWT (Abstract Window Toolkit), it lacks the "peer" layer that prevents AWT from taking advantage of a full range of widgets. Unlike Java Swing, SWT does not perform all painting operations within its own library. For this reason, SWT looks like any native windowing application, and the performance is excellent. In this article, Gervase Gallant looks at a common use of window applications - to present rows and columns of database tables. The first data entry screen he presents is a simple data table that allows a user to view and select a row for editing. In the second screen, the author deals with the issue of updating multiple text and button fields bound to a single row of data.
[Includes source code]
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2004/jw-0531-swt.html - May, 2004 - Rich clients with the SWT and JFace by Brian Sam-Bodden, Christopher Judd - [Clicks: 63]
The Eclipse frameworks provide a Java alternative to building robust, responsive, and great-looking desktop applications. In this excerpt from Enterprise Java Development on a Budget, authors Brian Sam-Bodden and Christopher Judd introduce Eclipse's SWT (Simple Widget Toolkit) and JFace frameworks. In their discussion, they illustrate how to build a GUI application using both APIs.
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2004/jw-0426-swtjface.html? - Apr, 2004 - SWT Layouts by Koray Guclu - [Clicks: 33]
Understanding layout fundamentals can be key to good design.
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3340621 - Apr, 2004 - SWT Programming with Eclipse by Koray Guclu - [Clicks: 70]
SWT is the core of the Eclipse user interface. The Eclipse platform is based on the SWT library. See here how to program with it.
http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3330861 - Mar, 2004
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Books:- SWT: A Developer's Notebook
by Tim Hatton - [Clicks: 31]
In typical Developer's Notebook style, you'll learn how to take SWT out for a spin, make it work for you,and turn it upside down, all without wasted words or space. Each lab in this notebook details a specific task; you can read from the first page to the last, look up just what you need to know, and even squeeze this book into your laptop bag as a quick reference when you forget how to create a multi-tabbed view.
O'Reilly Media, Inc., Paperback - Oct, 2004
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