SWT
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Desktop Java
SWT ScrolledComposite Explained
Like a friend of mine once put it, SWTs ScrolledComposite is a nasty beast. And to some point I do…
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Desktop Java
SWT 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.…
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Desktop Java
Sacrilege – a Custom SWT Scrollbar
SWT is a thin abstraction layer on top of native OS widgets. Which is a very good thing if you…
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Desktop Java
SWT Mouse Click Implementation
Doing a bit of SWT custom widget development lately, I stumbled across the question why is there no such thing…
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Desktop Java
How 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…
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Core Java
Clean 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…
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Software Development
Responsive 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…
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Desktop Java
RichText 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…
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Desktop Java
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…
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