SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1

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Addison-Wesley, 2004 - Computers - 544 pages

The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a new class library for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in Java. Created as part of the Eclipse project, SWT allows developers to build efficient, portable applications that directly access the user-interface facilities of the operating systems it is implemented on. This revolutionary technology makes it possible to create Java-based applications that are indistinguishable from a platform's native applications.

SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1, will show you how to:

  • Get SWT, install it, and invoke it from your programs.
  • Understand widgets--the building blocks of GUI--and how they interact with users and compose a GUI.
  • Use graphics routines to configure the appearance of native widgets and draw application-specific graphics.
  • Apply best practices from real-world uses of SWT.
  • Appreciate what makes a quality SWT program.

In this book--the first definitive guide to SWT--two of the technology's lead designers and implementers show you how to break the task of building a GUI-based application into components. They then show how these components are modeled in SWT and provide a series of graded examples. The result is a guided tour of the essential aspects of this exciting toolkit, ranging from mouse and keyboard handling to user-interface controls for native operating systems.

If you want to build modern GUI-based application, SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1, will prove an invaluable guide and reference.

From inside the book

 

Contents

Widgets
1
Chapter Widget Fundamentals
7
The Keyboard
27
Copyright

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Common terms and phrases

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Bibliographic information

TitleSWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1
Eclipse (Criterion Collection)
Eclipse series, ISSN 1559-3010
SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Steve Northover
AuthorsSteve Northover, Mike Wilson
Editionillustrated
PublisherAddison-Wesley, 2004
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized19 Nov 2007
ISBN0321256638, 9780321256638
Length544 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Internet / Web Programming
Computers / Languages / General
Computers / Languages / Java
Computers / User Interfaces
  
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