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Learning Eclipse RCP and SWT/JFace

I am new to to Eclipse RCP and SWT/JFace. I intend to purchase the Second Edition of the well known Eclipse Rich Client Platform book by Jeff McAffer, Jean-Michel Lemieux, Chris Aniszczyk. I wish to know from people who have read any of the editions of the book whether the book serves as a good introduction to both the topics (RCP and SW...

SWT open source applications gallery?

I'm new to SWT/JFace. I would like to know if someone could indicate real world apllications based on SWT/Jface but not on Eclipse RCP. I can see lot of examples (come of them very professional) of RCP based apps, but nothing about SWT/Jface standalone. I would like to start to develop an utility app with these libraries (instead of Swin...

How to set SWT label padding?

When i assign text to my Labels, they wrap around it very tightly, sometimes cutting the lower edges off 'p', 'y' and alike. I would like to have some padding between text and border. I am using a TableWrapLayout for the parent Composite and TableWrapData for the Labels TableWrapLayout layout = new TableWrapLayout(); layout.numC...

JFace question: Disable some entries in ListSelectionDialog?

I have a ListSelectionDialog. Something like this for instance: Now what I'd like to do is to have some items permanently selected and disabled (Basically I'd like to indicate to the user that these are part of the "core" selections and are not optional). Is there a way to do this? ...

Where can I download the javadoc for swt(Only)

Does anyone know where I can download the javadoc files for Swt and/or JFace? I do not want the api docs for the rest of Eclipse. I found a place where the docs are available for reading online but I really need them on my local computer. ...

Show "status" in SWT JFace Eclipse - Composite

hi I have a sash from component of a view which needs to be extended a little. The view lists accounts. The idea is to show a small notification on top of the component that a certain account is being viewed at the same time. The appropriate listeneres and methods are ready but i got not GUI skills... Could anybody help me out and sugge...

How to update a view from code in an Eclipse RCP app.

I have a View class (extends ViewPart) that contains a ScrolledForm created from a FormToolkit. When certain events happen in other views in the app I want to change the form in this view and have it update in real time to the user. I have property change support support added now and the following method in the View public void p...

how to show up the perspective button without click?

I have two perspectives , but to see the second perspective , as you know have to click button 'open perspective'. Is there way that the second perspective button shown up automatically , when application start up? ...

How can I remember editors when Perspective change

I have two Perspectives and two editor part each. When preperspective changed to postperspective , the editor opend is closed . then changed again to preperspective , no editor can be recovered. How can I rememver the Editor Opend , even when changing perspective occured. and can I recover it again? ...

FilteredTree (JFace): custom filter that shows all children

Hi, I'm currently using a FilteredTree with a PatternFilter to display data in a Tree. My problem is that it only shows the elements matching the pattern and hides their children (except they also match the pattern). Example: Tree: A -B --1 --2 -C --1 --2 Pattern "B" gives me: A -B But I need: A -B --1 --2 I tried a few t...

How can I change the button that is in the view.

I have a toggle button that is on the Viewer![alt text][1] the problem is , when it turn on , How can recover the last status . like even though the default value is false , how to set it true programmatically. In the plugin.xml , the default status is true. ...

I have the exception as soon as shutting down my workbench

!SESSION 2010-10-05 15:59:54.026 ----------------------------------------------- eclipse.buildId=unknown java.version=1.6.0_20 java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc. BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=ko_KR Framework arguments: -product JobSchedulerClient.product Command-line arguments: -product JobSchedulerClient.pro...

Please recommend me the way that I can study about RCP

I am in the company , and make application in rcp , but the problem is I can not find the much of information of it . How can I solve this . Please help me ...

Pop SWT/JFace-based dialogs in front of Swing-based JFrame

I have an application that starts out as an Eclipse RCP application and then fires up a JFace ApplicationWindow, complete with a simple menu, toolbar, display widgets, etc. This second application window includes some model dialogs (extended from JFace Dialog and TitleAreaDialog) from the action classes. This second application window ...

How can I add a hyperlink to a SWT/Jface Dialog

How can I make a hyperlink in a jface Dialog that when clicked opens the link in the default web browser. A full example would be useful. I know there is a org.eclipse.jface.text.hyperlink package but I can't find a suitable example. ...

Using JFace databinding with Hibernate: is this possible?

Our project is an Eclipse RCP application using Hibernate as an ORM. I recently learned about JFace databinding, in which the GUI and data models can be synchronized automagically. I put together a short test implementation along the lines of Lars Vogel's excellent JFace Data Binding Tutorial and was fairly impressed with the framework...

How can I show all of String in Console View

I docked console plug-in in my rcp application. and the problem is even I set the buffer size by 'setWarterMark()' , not able to show all of the String. It is cut out . How can I solve this. How can I show it up all ...