[Sussex] SWT and Java

[Richie Jarvis]

Geoffrey J Teale wrote:
> Someone (sorry I forget your name) was asking about SWT this evening.
> Here are some more details:
> 
> SWT stands for Standard Widget Toolkit.  It was developed, along with
> JFace as part of the development of the Eclipse IDE.  Despite being
> part of the Eclipse project SWT is a completely stand alone package
> for Java.  The most important thing about SWT as opposed to SWING or
> awt is that it uses "Standard" native toolkits to present its GUI on
> each platform (it uses Gtk+ 2.x on Linux), thus avoiding some of the
> platform specific issues SWING has.
> 
> There's lots more information here:
> 
> http://eclipse.org/articles/main.html#SWT
> 
> ... and you should probably look at the tutorial here:
> 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecgui1/
> 
> 
> Of course Eclipse itself provides an excellent development
> environment for SWT including GUI design tools.
> 
> 
Ahh - it was me - thanks Geoff.

Cheers,

Richie