Tag Archives: SWT

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: [sourcecode language=”java”] package de.vogella.desktop.clipboard; import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard; import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.FileTransfer; import org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Transfer; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; /** * Utility class for putting files into the … Continue reading →

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