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I have some years experience with swing and feel comfortable that I understand the architecture.

Now I need to get up to speed on SWT rather quickly.

What would you recommend I study from online sources or books so I can get my head around the SWT architecture quickly ? I'm really starting from scratch.

Furniture answered 15/12, 2009 at 8:40 Comment(0)

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SWT Snippets. That's pretty much all you need to get started. There are some papers on SWT at eclipse.org as well. A lot is pretty similar to Swing so you will be up to speed in no time.

Showalter answered 15/12, 2009 at 8:44 Comment(2)

Cool bananas, when I woke up I kicked myself for asking such a dumb question. I might need an SO filter option like : do not allow this idjit to post questions before midday. – Furniture 15/12, 2009 at 10:11

No worries, the easy ones help to build rep; enjoy your SWT. You will love it after Swing. – Showalter 15/12, 2009 at 10:15

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Don't forget to use utils like GridLayoutFactory and GridDataFactory from JFace. They really reduce swt interface developement time.

Aikoail answered 15/12, 2009 at 16:52 Comment(0)

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The pdf's from this site are very good: www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~eclipse

Also there are some snippets on www.java2s.com (similar to those from the eclipse site)

If you used swing and now you want to start with SWT, this book shows you the differences: SWT Eye for the Swing Guy

Corpsman answered 15/12, 2009 at 12:49 Comment(1)

Thx dude, found the Manitoba site this am from the Eclipse site. – Furniture 15/12, 2009 at 13:2

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I notice that the Eclipse Visual Editor is being worked on again. This is a useful learning tool, even if you don't want to use it to develop your GUIs because of the way it translates WYSIWYG -> code and code -> WYSIWYG (within certain limitations, of course - it isn't magic). Useful for seeing the relationship between the code and the results.

Superbomb answered 15/12, 2009 at 10:21 Comment(1)

Yes, I had a look at it last week - and realised I had to know what the heck was under the covers if it was going to be any use to me ! – Furniture 15/12, 2009 at 10:43

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Have you ever tried swtxml plugin for eclipse? I find it (even with its faults) a small sweet tool. Lets you design your Composites and so on using xml.

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