Eclipse 3.0RC1 Plugin Development using SWT Designer Pro

[tsapienza]

SWT Designer appears to work well as a Eclipse plugin to develop standalone applications. However, does SWT Designer allow for the GUI to be operate from within an Eclipse view (Editor or other). I thought I saw a reference of convert from standalone to plugin but lost the pointer.

Can you help?

[Eric Clayberg]

SWT Designer appears to work well as a Eclipse plugin to develop standalone applications. However, does SWT Designer allow for the GUI to be operate from within an Eclipse view (Editor or other). I thought I saw a reference of convert from standalone to plugin but lost the pointer.

SWT Designer can be used to create standalone SWT apps, Eclipse RCP apps or Eclipse plugins. You can edit any Eclipse plugin UI artifact and he product includes wizards for creating view parts (with actions, menus and toolbars), wizard pages, dialogs, property & preference pages, etc.

[tsapienza]

Without wanting to appear totally incompetent, can you tell me what documentation I can read on "SWT Designer can be used to create standalone SWT apps, Eclipse RCP apps or Eclipse plugins. You can edit any Eclipse plugin UI artifact and he product includes wizards for creating view parts (with actions, menus and toolbars), wizard pages, dialogs, property & preference pages, etc."

[Eric Clayberg]

Without wanting to appear totally incompetent, can you tell me what documentation I can read on "SWT Designer can be used to create standalone SWT apps, Eclipse RCP apps or Eclipse plugins. You can edit any Eclipse plugin UI artifact and he product includes wizards for creating view parts (with actions, menus and toolbars), wizard pages, dialogs, property & preference pages, etc."

There are four main doc/demo sources you should review:

1) The built-in product help available via the Eclipse help system

2) The Designer tutorial created by the University Of Manitoba

3) The on-line product docs available on the Designer web site (see the Documentation entry in the nav tree)

4) The on-line product demos that cover most of the major feature areas. There are dedicated demos covering wizards, dialogs and JFace apps.

Once you create a class of the appropriate type, editing any of them is essentially the same whether you are talking about a standalone SWT app, a wizard page or a property page. JFace apps and Eclipse view parts also provide an extra interface for defining Eclipse actions.