Slides: SWT, JFace
Experts: Fisnik Kastrati, Heinrich Wendel
Contact: Daniel Speicher

1. Every SWT application requires a Display and one or more Shells.
2. The Shell is a composite object; it can contain other composite objects.
3. The Shell window must be opened to be displayed.
4. JFace is Model-View-Controller everywhere
5. It looks more complicated than it is

• Q: What means LCD? (In the context of UI platform incompatibilities?)
• A: Lowest/Least Common Denominator (deutsch: Kleinstes gemeinsames Vielfaches). Here the maximal set of widgets that run on any operating system.

• Remark: Communication with SWT has to be done on the Display-thread. Display provides the methods to execute Runnables synchronously and asynchronously.

• Q: What is the difference between and Action and a Command?

• Q: Are CellEditors strategies? Does the Viewer hold one instance of an editor for all cells?

• Q: Can you deploy JFace applications independently from Eclipse? (Standalone?)

• Q: What is the relation between ViewPart, Viewer and View?

• http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse/

• Main information at eclipse.org: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7echeckout%7e/platform-swt-home/dev.html#docs
• Articles

• Eclipse Developer Guide
• http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse/11-jface.pdf

• http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article-swt-browser-widget/browser.html

• Introduction to SWT and JFace
• Download the Sample codes for the above talk here.
• Short Introduction to Eclipse, SWT and JFace
• Ahmand's talk about eSWT
• Verena's talk about eJFace
• A Basic SWT Image Viewer. Includes code for resizing images.

Here are some more tips & tricks how to use swt. Especially how to dispose resource (maybe this helps with the leak)

• http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article-writing%20your%20own%20widget/writing%20your%20own%20widget.htm
• http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse/