Tag Archives: SWT

SWT: Detecting which key was pressed during a MouseClick by Lars Vogel

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Lars Vogel

Sometimes you want to detect the metakey which was pressed during a mouse click on SWT widget. This information is available in the SelectionEvent via the stateMask property. The following code shows an example for this.

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Finding SWT resources leaks with Sleak

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Lars Vogel

In SWT you must cleanup your allocated resources. Luckily the SWT Composite passed to you, is disposed by the framework so any Widget which you create on this control is disposed for you automatically. Except Fonts, Colors and Images. For … Continue reading →

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WindowBuilder with Eclipse 4.2 / 3.8 (Linux)

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Lars Vogel

Currently, if you trying to use WindowBuilder under Linux with Eclipse 3.8 / Eclipse 4.2, it renders incorrectly. Add the following line to the end of your eclipse.ini file to fix this: -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.useCairo=false This is a small bug in SWT … Continue reading →

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Eclipse SWT – Creating an email in the default email client

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Lars Vogel

As many of you properly know SWT has the nice Program.launch() method which allows to start programs associated with an URI. Example: Unfortunately this does not seem to be working on Linux. So if you are working under Linux you … Continue reading →

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SWT Style Bits – Bitwise Or and Bitwise And

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Lars Vogel

Ever wondered how SWT Style bits work? It is actually very simple. The style bits are a multitud of 2 SWT.NONE = 0, // 00000000 binary SWT.MULTI = 2, // 00000010 binary SWT.SINGLE = 4; // 00000100 binary SWT.READ_ONLY = … Continue reading →

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Browser Tales – Java to JavaScript and vice versa with the SWT Browser Widget

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Lars Vogel

The SWT Browser widget makes it very easy to run HTML and JavaScript within Eclipse. This widget encapsulates a browser (system dependent) into a SWT widget. The following screenshot is from the second example below. This example is based on … Continue reading →

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JavaScript in the SWT Browser widget

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Lars Vogel

At the Eclipse Summit Europe I listened to a talk of Boris Bokowski about Eclipse and the Web. Among other things I learned that you can execute JavaScript directly on the SWT Browser Widget and I wanted to give a … Continue reading →

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SWT – Putting a file into the clipboard

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Lars Vogel

I recently got the question how you can put a file into the system clipboard. SWT makes this trivial: Afer calling the method with a correct filename you should be able to paste the file, e.g. Strg+V into your system … Continue reading →

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