My requirement is to develop UI with SWT. I was told I have to use RCP software which is going to be Eclipse Luna. After doing enough research, I also tried making plugin in eclipse as the online tutorial . But I could not understand where exactly I can develop UI which should have controls like Text box, drop-down box etc. What do I do with the plug in eclipse ? Does it serve any purpose in creating UI in SWT?
Can anyone help me?
Please go through some good tutorials at Vogella RCP tutorials. Hope this will help you.
Along with the links you have been provided. I will suggest you to start UI design using WindowsBuilder. It will give you good and easy start to design interface.
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I am new to programming,
Can anyone suggest how to construct/edit the user interface in Java GWT with ui binder. A GUI editor/designer should be handy but unfortunately I couldn't find one
I am working on an existing project that uses Java and GWT with ui binder with the ui.xml files.
Eclipse Luna as the ide(python in the backend that's another story)
Searched across the internet to find that there is a GWT designer tool but that is discontinued on latest GWT. Rest all other tutorials says to add/edit the .java and .ui.xml codes which is a tired process as my project has got plenty of sheets.
Thanks in adavnce
Just do it by hand.
No editor exists anymore. The old editor you found is dead.
I guess because it was not good enough.
Never used it, programming should be done by hand.
This is more like a work around(as I wouldn't consider this an actual fix/answer)
Here is what I did
Loaded my Project onto Eclipse Kepler with GWT 2.6.1(this version has the fixed designer tool)
Voila, it works like a charm and now I can easily edit/modify the UI.
I know its a dead end if I can't move with an updated version, but its okay for now.
Hope I find an alternate.
Many thanks for the suggestions and answers.
I developed a Java Swing application using Eclipse. I would like to integrate the existing help documentation into my GUI.
Basically I want to start my help window with a typical menu item as common for most programs. So nothing
fancy at all.
I spent already a lot time to find which option would be best for my case and I'm kind of stuck. I thought integrating the help would be straight
forward but meanwhile I think this is not the case.
If anyone can point me in the right direction or show me a tutorial where I can get the idea how to accomplish it with eclipse help
and a swing application I would be really happy. I find a lot of tutorial discussing RCP applications or writing an eclipse plugin.
Somehow I tried a lot for such an easy usecase.
The following options are available as far as I can tell:
1. Eclipse like help
My favorite option would be to use an eclipse like help window but after playing around a bit I have the slight feeling
that this is only possible for eclipse RCP applications. Since my Swing GUI is not a RCP application I think that wont work
for me.
Is it possible to integrate the Eclipse help with only my help content into my Swing application? Eclipse won't be installed
on the PCs where my application is used.
Most probably those PCs are not even connected to the internet, so using the Eclipse help in info center mode is also not
an option.
Using the eclipse help in standalone mode requires to specify the eclipse installation directory when launching it. That's where I'm stuck.
2. Java help or Oracle help Java
Using these options is my next call also not my favorite one. I think both options are kind of outdated.
For Java help I would probably follow the Docbook approach. Even if I don't understand why this is so complicated at
all...
3. Custom panel
I'm almost close to design a customized panel to display my help content. Then I'm at least able to make sure that I like
the way it is designed.
In the beginning I thought this might be more time consuming, but after reading what effort is necessary to get a nice looking
help with Java help I think this option is not the worst choice.
Thanks Joe
My solution for now is to create the complete help system with HelpNDoc and then simply generate the HTML documentation.
The HTML document I will open from my swing GUI.
I also tried the CHTML but to be honest I like the look (which can be nicely configured) int the browser more.
Windows Help looks also too outdated to me. But that's just my personal opinion.
Right now this is the right solution for me and my energy will go into the help itself.
Thanks to everyone.
Joe
I want to learn GWT, so I downloaded the GWT and have started to look at the tutorials of it.
As far as I'm concerned, in the menus of plug-in are useful for GWT users.
Do you know any tutorial web site or document which contains this menu for adding something or user guide ?
I want to use this plug efficiently so I need this.
And any advices in order to learn GWT will be beneficial for me.
Any help and advices will be appreciated.
The Vogella's GWT Tutorial is a good introduction to Google Web Toolkit.
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 Swing), and a well done, commerical quality, example application would help a lot to start the right way...
Thanks a lot,
Giovanni
See a list of real-world SWT applications here.
I'm working on Zekr, which is only based on SWT (neither RPC nor JFace).
I have just started digging into JavaFX and have a requirement that I am not sure if I can fulfill with JavaFX. Does anyone know if JavaFX supports embedding another application (non-java, in this case a microsoft app) in a panel? I don't (at this time) have a requirement to control anything on that application, just have it run in that panel.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Embeding applications into Java. Originally asked for Swing, but it is also applicable for JavaFX.
Is the other application a Java program? As JavaFX supports Threads, and since you can instantiate Java classes in JavaFX, this should actually work, though this is just a guess.
You can embed other java applications,but certainly not other technology applications.I would rather suggest to reframe just your user interface in JavaFx as it would help you get a very rich user experience!
Good Luck!