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What are the major differences which may be encountered? Any major differences in application design? Threading models? The way you go about constructing GUIs? Any features of SWT which aren't available in Swing? Few findings from my experience between Swing and SWT Rendering of Swing is a bit slower (my experience) and use much more memory Native look is possible just partially (depends on selected look'n'feel) Most of Swing components somehow implements MVC pattern (so you don't have to make your own data binding) It's possible to subclass components and it is used when you have to change

for my app I need the space key to call a function independent from the focused widget, everywhere in the app but only if the according tab is opend. I found that one can add a filter to the display, like this: getShell().getDisplay().addFilter(SWT.KeyDown, new Listener() { public void handleEvent(Event arg0) { if( arg0.character == 32 ) { /**SPACE*/ if( mainTabs.getSelection().equals(analyseSoundFilesTab)) { soundController.playButtonClickHandler(); } } } }); That works fine most of the time, but if I give a button the focus via the "tab" or "shift tab", its kinda strange - the space bar will

I am developing a plugin for eclipse. In this plugin I need to be able to add an item to the context menu in the text editor. So far I have been unsuccessful in this, does anyone know how to add this item. Also, how do I get a string with the text currently selected in the editor. Thank you so much. VonC Regarding the selection part, the question " Replace selected code from eclipse editor thru plugin comand " is quite adequate for your need: try { IEditorPart part = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().getActiveEditor(); if ( part instanceof ITextEditor ) {

I'm trying to draw a border over a Text in SWT... This is what I got for now: public class BorderedText extends Text { public BorderedText(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(new PaintListener() { @Override public void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { e.gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON); if (isFocusControl()) { Color color = new Color(getDisplay(), new RGB(82, 168, 236)); e.gc.setAlpha(200); e.gc.setForeground(color); Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(0,0, getClientArea().width-1, getClientArea().height-1); Transform t = new Transform(getDisplay()); e.gc.setTransform(t); e.gc

Is it possible to use the 64bit XulRunner for Windows ( available from here ) with the Eclipse browser widget? It works fine under 32bit Windows and the answer to this question explains how this works. But when I try this under 64bit Windows I get the following exception: org.eclipse.swt.SWTError: No more handles (java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons: no swt-xulrunner-win32-3834 in java.library.path no swt-xulrunner-win32 in java.library.path Can't load library: C:\Users\...\.swt\lib\win32\x86_64\swt-xulrunner-win32- 3834.dll Can't load library: C:\Users\...\.swt