SWT ScrolledComposite Explained

Like a friend of mine once put it, SWTs ScrolledComposite is a nasty beast. And to some point I do…

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SWT Look and Feel: Customize FlatScrollBar Color and More

Recently I introduced a custom slider control useful for improving the SWT look and feel of more subtle view layouts.…

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Sacrilege – a Custom SWT Scrollbar

SWT is a thin abstraction layer on top of native OS widgets. Which is a very good thing if you…

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SWT Mouse Click Implementation

Doing a bit of SWT custom widget development lately, I stumbled across the question why is there no such thing…

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How to Safely Use SWT’s Display asyncExec

Most user interface (UI) toolkits are single-threaded and SWT is no exception. This means that UI objects must be accessed…

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Clean SWT Listener Notifcations with SWTEventHelper

Writing tests for SWT based UIs often requires to notify widget listeners programmatically. Unfortunately the code to create, initialize and…

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Responsive UIs with Eclipse and SWT

Recently I had the problem that my ‘well-conceived’ view design did not scale down reasonably. I realized that the flexibility…

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RichText editor component for SWT based applications

This article will go through the task of implementing our own RichText editor component with SWT. I faced the need…

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Integrating JavaFX 2.0 with Swing and SWT

One of the improvements in JavaFX with JavaFX 2.0 has been greater ease of interoperability with Swing and SWT. Several…

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