He has developed software in various languages for the transportation, banking, and medical industries during his career. Rob Warner graduated from Brigham Young University in December 1993 with a degree in English, and then immediately took a job in the technology industry. Since earning his master of science degree from the University of Florida, he has been designing and implementing flexible, resilient solutions in the telecommunications, transportation, and medical industries. About the Authors Robert Harris is a software engineer focused on distributed object computing.

These applications can be used as GUI plug-ins for Eclipse, and they're compatible with the new Eclipse 3.0 application development framework. Demonstrations of building JFace applications are also included and reinforced with thorough explanations and example code. Furthermore, the book describes JFace, an additional abstraction layer built on SWT. You'll come to understand the entire class hierarchy of SWT, and you'll learn to use all components in the toolkit with Java code.

Then the book explains why SWT is superior and provides extensive examples of building applications with SWT. The book first runs down the Java GUI toolkit history. Table of Contents The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace Introduction Part I - Getting ReadyĬhapter 10 - Graphics Chapter 11 - Displaying and Editing Text Chapter 12 - Advanced Topics Part III - Using JFaceĬhapter 13 - Your First JFace Application Chapter 14 - Creating Viewers Chapter 15 - JFace Dialogs Chapter 16 - User Interaction Chapter 17 - Using Preferences Chapter 18 - Editing Text Chapter 19 - Miscellaneous Helper Classes Chapter 20 - Creating Wizards Index List of Figures List of Tables List of Listings List of Sidebarsīack Cover Need to build stand-alone Java applications? The Definitive Guide to SWT and Jface will help you build them from the ground up. The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace by Robert Harris and Rob WarnerĪpress © 2004 (864 pages) This authoritative guide explains SWT and provides extensive examples of building applications with SWT, and includes demonstrations of building JFace applications which can be used as GUI plug-ins for Eclipse. This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to to register it.

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