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SWT Documentation
This page contains links to books, tutorials, and articles about SWT.
SWT in Books
SWT is in print in the following books.
"SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1" by Steve Northover and Mike Wilson
This book can be read online at the publisher's web site.
"The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace" by Rob Warner and Robert Harris
"The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Edition" by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fa
irbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, and Pat McCarthy (Chapter 14)
"Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins" by Erich Gamma and
Kent Beck (Chapter 34)
"Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer" by David Gallardo, Ed Burnet
te, and Robert McGovern (Appendix D)
"Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applica
tions" by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux
"Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins" by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel
"SWT/JFace in Action: GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0" by Matthew Scarpino, Stephen
Holder, Stanford Ng and Laurent Mihalkovic
"Eclipse" and "Eclipse Cookbook" by Steve Holzner
SWT Documentation Inside Eclipse
The Eclipse Help system contains good solid documentation for SWT in the Platfor
m Plug-in Developer Guide. To get there in Eclipse, select
Help > Help Contents > Platform Plug-in Developer Guide.
SWT documentation appears in the following sections of the Platform Plug-in Deve
loper Guide:
Programmer's Guide: Standard Widget Toolkit
Reference: API Reference: org.eclipse.swt.* (javadoc for each package)
Examples Guide: Standard Widget Toolkit
SWT Online Documentation
In addition to reading SWT documentation inside Eclipse, you can read it online
here:
Programmer's Guide
API Reference
Examples Guide
Online javadoc
Older versions of the Eclipse documentation
SWT Articles at eclipse.org and eclipse.org/swt
Articles at eclipse.org:
Articles about SWT on Eclipse Corner at eclipse.org (20 at last count)
Articles at eclipse.org/swt:
How to develop SWT applications in Eclipse
How to run the ControlExample and other SWT examples
How to deploy SWT applications on Mac OS X
How to generate the SWT JNI Code for Cocoa
How to deploy SWT applications using Java Web Start
How to use SWT from GIT
How to generate the SWT JNI Code
Using OpenGL with SWT 3.2
How to fix a bug in SWT
More Articles about SWT
External articles, interviews in online journals:
SWT articles published in JDJ and OS News:
Ship Happens! Insights From the Eclipse SWT Community
SWT: A Native Widget Toolkit for Java, Part 1 of 2
SWT: A Native Widget Toolkit for Java, Part 2 of 2
Desktop Java with SWT: an interview with Steve Northover
SWT articles on IBM Developerworks Library:
Using the Eclipse GUI outside the Eclipse Workbench
Integrate ActiveX controls into SWT applications
Equipping SWT applications with content assistants
A Gentle Introduction to SWT and JFace (4 parts)
Create an Eclipse Game Plug-in (4 parts)
SWT Online Tutorials
There have been a few tutorials posted about SWT that you may find useful:
Getting Started with Eclipse and SWT
This site contains some tutorials and example programs that will help programmer
s who are new to Eclipse and the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) install Eclipse c
orrectly and run some simple Java/SWT programs.
Detailed getting started guide with SWT on GTK
A detailed guide for SWT developers on GTK.
Compiling Eclipse Applications for Windows With GCJ/MinGW
A guide for compiling an SWT application into an executable.
An introduction to SWT
Adapted from "SWT and JFace", a No Fluff Just Stuff 2004 presentation.
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