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Reputation: 11

How to use latest SWT in Eclipse RCP4 application?

I have two question about using SWT in Eclipse RCP4 application?

Q1: Why Eclipse 4x (Luna, Mars, Neon, Oxygen..) still use SWT 3.x but not 4.x? I downloaded SWT build with Eclipse Neon project (http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.6.1-201609071200/), but it is not the SWT which is used by Eclipse Neon.

Q2: When I created new RCP4 application by Eclipse Neon, this RCP4 application used the SWT library which is used by Eclipse Neon (SWT 3.x). How can I use SWT 4.x in my RCP4 application and How can Maven-Tycho build SWT 4.x for this application?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 171

Answers (1)

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greg-449

Reputation: 111217

The SWT included with Eclipse Neon is the same as this download.

The download is numbered 4.6.1 to show that it is part of the Eclipse 4.6.1 (Neon.1) release. The SWT plugin version is 3.105.1. All 4.6.1 downloads include the same SWT.

You can also look at the libxxx-4626.xxx files in the two jars. The 4626 is in internal SWT version (4.626).

You can also call SWT.getVersion() which returns 4626 (the internal version) in both cases.

So there is nothing to do.

Upvotes: 1

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