We have a ViewerFilter for a TableViewer that is a little slow, so to try to give the impression of awesomeness, we wanted to have the viewer wait 500 milliseconds before refreshing the window (otherwise, it was blocking after every key stroke). Not having any clue what I was doing, I tried creating a class that would check if System.cu...
Is there a way to replicate the design palette from the Eclipse Visual Editor in an SWT application? Here is a screen capture of the widget. http://bit.ly/b6lUZh. ...
I have source code: private Image getImage(String path, ClassLoader loader) { InputStream image = null; try { image = loader.getResourceAsStream(path); return new Image(PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getDisplay(), image); } finally { if (image != null) { try { image.close(); ...
I'm working on a Eclipse RCP Application. In a class which extends MultiPageEditorPart, i'm trying to set the focus to a text field. But the setFocus Method always returns false. What am i doing wrong? The MultiPageEditor has various pages and inside these pages, there are Composite - classes. These classes contain the text field. H...
How do I prevent a multi-line text field from "stealing" tab-key presses? I mean: I'd like to use TAB to cycle between the elements of a window, but when I enter the multiline text, TAB becomes a "normal" key, and simply inserts tabulators into the text I'm typing. How do I handle this? Should I write some custom listener, or can I cha...
I am trying to write a small app to play videos using JMF 2.1.1e in Netbeans 6.8, I have cross-posted it at Sun Java Forums and Netbeans Users forum (link can't be added since I am a new user). The code is as follows, package demo; import java.io.File; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import java.util.logging...
I am writing a custom app that requires a help system. The app is written in SWT. Is there anyway I can generate eclipse style help with SWT? I.e when you press F1 in the Eclipse editor you get a new window on the side. As an aside, I would also like to be able to provide an editor for this help documentation. ...
I have developed a standalone SWT app. Now I am trying to migrate it to the RCP Plug-In framework. I need to hook up the SWT menus that I created in the standalone app to the RCP model. I have SWT MenuItem(s) that I would like to place in the RCP menu's. However these menus use JFace IWorkbenchAction, IAction etc. I would rather n...
i have created a View which contains 1 ScrolledForm only. All Children Composites of this ScrolledForm are instantiated with GridLayout and the depest children are created with a FormLayout. mForm = toolkit.createScrolledForm(this); mForm.setExpandHorizontal(true); mForm.setExpandVertical(true); mForm.set...
I have a CTabFolder with one of its CTabItems which may change its contents on a given user action. But I don't know how to force the display once the contents have changed. I get the tab item blank; if I resize the window suddenly everything appears. I'm not posting the code because I did some wrapping in Scala, but this is basically w...
Hello Experts Original goal: I have a TreeMenu that i use to display my Menu. In this tree, a user can select different items. I would like to disable the tree, so that a user cannot select a new item after choosing the first. The catch is, we cannot use setEnabled, because we are not allowed to use the greyed out look. The look/color...
I'm not a proficient GUI developer, and I have no talent for design. Is there a comprehensive style guide for developing SWT applications? I'm especially interested in standards for developing layouts, what margins and spacing between controls to use, font sizes and stuff like that. ...
I'm trying to create an Eclipse Form that has three foldable sections, one fixed size and two others that should grab all the remaining vertical space in the editor window so, that when one of the bottom sections is folded, the other one would fill all the available space. I have read the forms article, tried many variations of grabExce...
My View is derived from ViewPart, but I have a listener on it which receives Events from non-GUI threads. If something is supposed to happen on within the GUI thread, it has to go through asyncExec(). So far so good. The thing is, the GUI elements are created in createPartControl(), so they can't be final. At the moment I just put th...
I am trying to follow instructions in Eclipse to create my first Hello World SWT application. I have problems on the first step. In the instructions the following is written: Open your Web browser to http://eclipse.org/downloads/, navigate to the Eclipse Platform project section, select the latest release build, and find the ...
I followed roughly the recipe in this blog entry http://eclipsercptutorials.blogspot.com/2009/05/add-toolbar-to-view-in-eclipse-rcp.html Which looks like that the image appears left to the minimize/maximize icons The thing is, if I don't assign an image to the action, then the item doesn't appear in the header, but in a separate to...
I am trying to create a Hello World SWT application using Eclipse. I follow all instructions and in the end my program does not work. This is my code: import gnu.gcj.xlib.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; public class HelloWorldSWT { /** * @param args */ public static void main(String[] args) { ...
I created a Hello World SWT application using Eclipse and I was able to run it from Eclipse (everything works fine). But I wonder how other peoples (users) will run this kind of application. Should they install Eclipse, import my project and run it? It sounds strange. ...
I need to create a GUI application in Java. I just realized that I have different optional ways to go (SWT and Swing are among them). I have already found out that there is a lot of discussions about what way is better and I do not want to go to deep into these discussions (I am a newbie). I do not care about all aspects of the dilemma...
im using java SWT application. i cant select all text in a text box or text area by CTRL+A. is there any way to achieve it? ...