SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1 (THE ECLIPSE SERIES) - Softcover

Northover, Steve; Wilson, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0321256638 ISBN 13: 9780321256638

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 2004

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

The principal architect of the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), Steve Northover joined IBM OTI Labs in 1990. He is an expert on performance, programming for operating systems, and native user interface toolkits. He is the lead of the Eclipse SWT team and is one of the few people who understands the implementation of the toolkit on every platform.

Mike Wilson has been a part of IBM OTI Labs since its inception in 1987 as Object Technology International, Inc. Over the years he has played a major part in many of the company's most significant successes, including contributing to the design, implementation, and maintenance of SWT. Currently, he is active in many aspects of the Eclipse Platform, including the Core and Team teams.

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321256638
• ISBN 13: 9780321256638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 592