Common GUI for both PlugIn and StandAlone app

[P38]

We have designed a window as part of an eclipse plug-in. It is implemented in the ViewPart method of the View class.

We want to use this in both the Plug In and a stand-alone SWT windows app.

When we moved all of the GUI code to another class and called it from ViewPart, the Design page in SWT designer becomes blank.

We've done this kind of thing before with reusable little chunks of GUI.

What do you suppose our problem is?

[Eric Clayberg]

It sounds like your new class is not a subclass of a known UI type.

Based on what you describe, your new UI class should be a subclass of Composite.

In SWT, "reusable little chunks of GUI" should ideally be implemented as Composites.

As an alternative, you could also create a Factory class.