Book Description
Covering Eclipse's new capability for building graphical user
interfaces with version 3.0, the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) and
JFace, this guide demonstrates how these award-winning tools have
received broad support for creating desktop applications. Theory
and practical examples reveal how to build GUIs that combine the
look and feel of native interfaces with the platform independence
of Java. This guide also shows how SWT makes use of the widgets
provided by the operating system and describes how these components
can be associated with events, containers, and graphics. With this
knowledge, programmers can build fully featured user interfaces
that communicate directly with the underlying platform. JFace's
ability to simplify and organize the process of GUI design is then
demonstrated, enabling developers to modify and adapt components,
and separate their information from their appearance.
Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- About the Authors
- About the Title
- About the Cover Illustration
- Chapter 1. Overview of SWT and JFace
- Chapter 2. Getting started with SWT and JFace
- Chapter 3. Widgets: part 1
- Chapter 4. Working with events
- Chapter 5. More widgets
- Chapter 6. Layouts
- Chapter 7. Graphics
- Chapter 8. Working with trees and lists
- Chapter 9. Tables and menus
- Chapter 10. Dialogs
- Chapter 11. Wizards
- Chapter 12. Advanced features
- Chapter 13. Looking beyond SWT/JFace: the Rich Client Platform
- Appendix A. Creating projects with SWT/JFace
- Appendix B. OLE and ActiveX in SWT/JFace
- Appendix C. Changeable GUIs with Draw2D
- Appendix D. The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF)
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings