Setting Colors in SWT

Question

This is pretty simple, I come from a swing/awt background.

I\'m just wondering what the proper way to set the background color for a SWT widget is?

I\'ve bee

Answer 1

For standard colors (including common colors and default colors used by the operating system) Use Display.getSystemColor(int), and pass in the SWT.COLOR_* constant for the color you want.

Display display = Display.getCurrent();
Color blue = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLUE);
Color listBackground = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_LIST_BACKGROUND);

Note that you do not need to dispose these colors because SWT created them.