Category Archives: SWT

A tour through the Eclipse start-up options

I was tweaking the start-up options on Eclipse 3.1M6 on my PowerBook and I was curious what all these things meant. Some of these are Mac-only and some probably apply to all platforms. I welcome feedback on what other platforms … Continue reading

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Will Apple be supporting Eclipse and SWT better in the future?

Marcello pointed out this Apple job posting for a Java Frameworks Engineer in the Eclipse-Mac Google group: “We are interested in an energetic developer who can master our Java implementation (Java, Obj-C, C & C++) and contribute to making Mac … Continue reading

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Eclipse JFace tip: How to add column headers to a TableViewer

So you’ve created a JFace TableViewer, via: TableViewer tableViewer = new TableViewer(parent); The scenario: You have already set up the label provider, the content provider and the (model) input. The label provider, which extends ITableLabelProvider returns values for two columns. … Continue reading

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Azureus – killer SWT app

I’m helping out a friend by helping him install Fedora Core 3. I’d rather get him to use OS X, but Fedora is free and lets him leverage some existing hardware. One step at a time, right? Fedora (which in … Continue reading

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Proposal to reduce repetition with Swing and SWT listeners

DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself We know that this is good, since it reduces code maintenance, so why do we persist with writing listeners like this: (Note that this is example is written with SWT; Swing looks almost the same.) … Continue reading

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A Desktop Java Renaissance

I finally got used to the new look of JavaLobby and am glad that the gliding nav toolbar stopped gliding. That’s one of those features that seems glitzy but just ends up distracting the user. Anyways, I responded to two … Continue reading

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Native Browsers in Java on Windows (and Linux)

Last night I looked at embedded native browser components in Java, focusing on Mac OS X. Tonight we’ll look at what’s available on Windows. There are at least 4 contenders, perhaps more. In addition, there are 3 browser choices: Internet … Continue reading

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Browser components in Java

I’m currently putting together an application that will be implemented in SWT/JFace/RCP/Java, Swing/Spring Rich/Java, and Cocoa/Objective-C. I’m doing to see what they will look like on OS X, plus to learn a little more about the RCP, a lot more … Continue reading

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What to do when you get an UnsatisifiedLinkError when running an SWT or JFace application

So you’re trying to run an SWT application (or JFace, since JFace relies on SWT) inside Eclipse and you get the dreaded UnsatisfiedLinkError. This usually appears as one of the following: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-pi-carbon-3063 in java.library.path … Continue reading

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