Chapter 3. Widgets: part 1
To the less enlightened, the term widget may suggest a gadget or gizmo—a mechanism that may or may not serve a useful purpose. But in studying SWT and JFace, you need to take widgets very seriously. These are the paints in your palette and the ingredients in your cupboard. Your understanding of the subject will determine how well your applications appear and perform.
The Eclipse designers define a widget as “any UI object that can be placed inside another widget.” However, rather than use this recursive definition, we’ve come up with our own: A widget is “any object in a graphical user interface that displays information ...
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