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jkteater
jkteater

Reputation: 1391

SWT Form or Dialog

I am starting a project using solely SWT.
I have never used SWT so I am trying to learn the ins and outs.
I want to create a base dialog window(I will call it a dialog from working with Swing but not sure about SWT).
This window will be the first thing the user sees after clicking a menu action. The window will eventually have buttons that perform actions, it will also have a tableviewer. It is basically like the user opens a small application from the main application.

In Swing - I would just create a dialog class and add a tablelistener. But with SWT, I am not sure if it is dialog or a form or what.

What should I use to create this base SWT window?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1148

Answers (1)

Dan D.
Dan D.

Reputation: 32391

There are a lot of helpful dialogs in SWT. I was usually extending FormDialog, but you can take a look at the Eclipse bundles code to learn from. Please see below an example:

public class SomeDialog extends FormDialog {

  public SomeDialog(Shell shell) {
    super(shell);
  }

  @Override
  protected void createFormContent() {
  }
}

And another hint that may help you a lot. On Windows, you can open a dialog or focus a view or editor and press ALT + SHIFT + F1 to open the Plug-in Spy that will show you the path to the source code of that widget.

Upvotes: 1

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