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SWT, The Standard Widget Toolkit

A simple, productive path to effective cross-platform interfaces

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Objectives

● Cut through the hype and explain what SWT really is

● Describe SWT's advantages and disadvantages

● Explain SWT's technical relationship to Swing

● Provide a taste of coding with SWT● List where to find additional SWT resources

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Assumptions

● You feel comfortable with Java● You have prior experience programming

using Swing, Visual Basic, Delphi, C++ Builder, or a similar visual programming environment

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What is SWT?

● Strict technical● Common usage

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What is SWT?

● Technical description– org.eclipse.swt.*– A portable toolkit providing access to the native

platform's graphical resources

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What is SWT?

● Implementation strategy– A thin layer of Java objects over the native

operating system's “objects”– Minimum abstraction required to be portable

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What is SWT?

● Common Usage:– The GUI toolkit used to create:

● Eclipse plug-ins● Standalone applications based on Eclipse technology● New SWT controls

– This definition includes Eclipse technologies in addition to SWT

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What is SWT (common usage)?

● Related technologies– JFace – Swing-like MVC layer built on top of

SWT plus other helpful user interface classes

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What is SWT (common usage)?

● Related technologies– Java2d – An object-based drawing toolkit built on

top of SWT– GEF – A toolkit built on top of Java2d for

creating GUI builders, HTML editors, UML diagrammers, object-based drawing editors, etc.

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What is SWT (common usage)?

● Related technologies– Sweet – A component layer on top of SWT

similar to Active-X or VCL for the Win32 API● JavaBeans for SWT● http://sweet-swt.sourceforge.net

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What is SWT (common usage)?

● Related technologies– All of the Eclipse framework, when used as an

application framework for custom applications and not as an IDE

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SWT Advantages

● Native Look & Feel – almost for free● Lightweight and simple● “Familiarly” Fast● Open source

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SWT Advantages – Win2k

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SWT Advantages – WinXP + theme

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SWT Advantages – GTK + theme

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SWT Advantages – GTK + theme

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SWT Advantages – GTK + theme

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SWT Advantages – MacOS X

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SWT Disadvantages

● Lightweight● Immature compared to Swing● A few fewer platforms supported

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How does SWT relate to Swing?

● Swing's main strengths– Consistent look & feel across all platforms;

attractive themes are available.– Sun-supported

– (What else would you add?)

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How does SWT relate to Swing?

● SWT's main strengths– Native look and feel, because it is native.– Open source support

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How does SWT relate to Swing?

● Swing's main strengths– Consistent look & feel across all platforms;

attractive themes are available.– Sun-supported.

● SWT's main strengths– Native look and feel, because it is native.– Open source support.

These are complementary, not competitive strengths

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Why SWT?

● Web Services shift the emphasis on the client away from the web browser, back toward traditional GUI applications

● SWT strengthens Java's position in this market

● SWT provides features that compliment, rather than replace, Swing

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A Taste of SWT

● Hello, SWTpublic class HelloSWT {

public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display(); Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch())

display.sleep(); } display.dispose();

}}

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A Taste of SWT

● Hello, SWT

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A Taste of SWT

● A simple SWT controlpublic class HelloSWTControl extends Canvas implements PaintListener { public HelloSWTControl(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(this); }

public void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { e.gc.drawText("Hello, world", 5, 5); }}

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A Taste of SWT

● A closer look at the constructorpublic class HelloSWTControl extends Canvas implements PaintListener { public HelloSWTControl(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(this); }

public void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { e.gc.drawText("Hello, world", 5, 5); }}

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A Taste of SWT

● SWT constructors have 2 arguments:– The parent control

● SWT controls are added to their parents during construction, not by using an add( ) method

– Style bits● Some things you're used to seeing as properties of an

object show up as style bits on the constructor● This is the way the underlying O/S toolkits actually

work– (SWT just wraps the underlying O/S's objects)

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A Taste of SWT

● Displaying the SWT controlpublic class HelloSWT {

public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display();

Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch())

display.sleep(); } display.dispose();

}}

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● Displaying the SWT controlpublic class HelloSWT {

public static void main(String[] args) { Display display = new Display();

Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.setLayout(new FillLayout()); new HelloSWTControl(shell, SWT.NULL); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch())

display.sleep(); } display.dispose();

}}

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A Taste of SWT

● Displaying the SWT control

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● Managing graphical resources: a more complex example

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● Managing graphical resourcespublic class Blotter extends Canvas implements PaintListener { public Blotter(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(this); }

public void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { // Put our drawing code here }}

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● Managing graphical resourcespublic Blotter(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(this);}

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A Taste of SWT

● Managing graphical resourcespublic Blotter(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(this);

// Set a default background color display = Display.getCurrent();

Color background = display.getSystemColor( SWT.COLOR_DARK_GREEN);

setBackground(background);}

private Display display;

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A Taste of SWT

● Managing graphical resourcespublic class Blotter extends Canvas implements PaintListener { public Blotter(Composite parent, int style) { super(parent, style); addPaintListener(this); }

public void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { // Put our drawing code here }}

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● Managing graphical resourcespublic void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { // Put our drawing code here}

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● Managing graphical resourcespublic void paintControl(PaintEvent e) { GC gc = e.gc; Color black = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLACK); Color gray = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_GRAY);

Rectangle bounds = this.getBounds();

gc.setForeground(black); gc.drawLine(0, 0, 0, bounds.height); gc.setForeground(gray); gc.drawLine(1, 0, 1, bounds.height); // ...and so on...}

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A Taste of SWT

● Managing graphical resources– This is all there is to creating this control!– Conclusion:

● If you don't construct a graphical resource, you do not have to dispose it

● You can get away with this an amazing amount of the time

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What is JFace?

● A bunch of convenience classes for building SWT applications

– ApplicationWindow– Dialog– Wizard

● A framework for displaying and editing Java business model objects using SWT

– TableViewer– TreeViewer

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What is JFace?

● A bunch of convenience classes for building SWT applications

– ApplicationWindow– Dialog– Wizard

● A framework for displaying and editing Java business model objects using SWT

– TableViewer– TreeViewer

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Hello, JFacepublic class HelloJFace extends ApplicationWindow { public HelloJFace(Shell parentShell) { super(parentShell); setBlockOnOpen(true); }

public static void main(String[] args) { (new HelloJFace(null)).open(); }}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Hello, JFace

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Ways to add features to your JFace application:

– Add code to constructor– Override protected methods– Add new methods or classes

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● Add menu bar, tool bar, status linepublic class HelloJFace extends ApplicationWindow { public HelloJFace(Shell parentShell) { super(parentShell); setBlockOnOpen(true); }

public static void main(String[] args) { (new HelloJFace(null)).open(); }}

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● Add menu bar, tool bar, status linepublic class HelloJFace extends ApplicationWindow { public HelloJFace(Shell parentShell) { super(parentShell); setBlockOnOpen(true);

addMenuBar(); addToolBar(SWT.FLAT); addStatusLine(); }

public static void main(String[] args) { (new HelloJFace(null)).open(); }}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Add application title and iconprotected void configureShell(Shell shell) { super.configureShell(shell);

shell.setText("Hello, JFace");

shell.setImage( ImageDescriptor.createFromFile( HelloJFace.class, "icons/app.png").createImage());}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Add menu to menu barprotected MenuManager createMenuManager() { MenuManager menuManager = new MenuManager(); menuManager.add(createFileMenu()); return menuManager;}private MenuManager createFileMenu() { MenuManager menu = new MenuManager("&File"); menu.add(new Action() { public String getText() { return "E&xit"; } public void run() { getShell().close(); } }); return menu;}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Add button to tool barprotected ToolBarManager createToolBarManager( int style) { ToolBarManager toolBar = new ToolBarManager(style);

toolBar.add(new NewAction()); return toolBar;}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Add private class NewAction for buttonprivate class NewAction extends Action { public String getText() { return "New"; } public String getToolTipText() { return "New"; } public ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor() { ImageDescriptor imageDesc = ImageDescriptor.createFromFile( HelloJFace.class, "icons/new.png"); return imageDesc; } public ImageDescriptor getHoverImageDescriptor() { ImageDescriptor imageDesc = ImageDescriptor.createFromFile( HelloJFace.class, "icons/new-h.png"); return imageDesc; } public void run() { // add action code here }}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Add a blotter to the client areaprotected Control createContents(Composite parent) { Composite contents = new Blotter(parent, SWT.NULL);

return contents;}

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A Taste of SWT + JFace

● Here's how it looks now...

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Suppose we really want to build a “To-do” list...

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What is JFace?

● A bunch of convenience classes for building SWT applications

– ApplicationWindow– Dialog– Wizard

● A framework for displaying and editing Java business model objects using SWT

– TableViewer– TreeViewer

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Steps to add to-do list editor to application– Create TodoList “model” objects– Add TableViewer object to layout– Initialize TableViewer– Set TodoList object as the TableViewer's input– Write (or reuse existing classes) to specify the

following TableViewer event handler objects● ContentProvider, LabelProvider● CellEditor, CellModifier● RowSorter

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

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● Steps to add to-do list editor to application– Create TodoList “model” objects– Add TableViewer object to layout– Initialize TableViewer– Set TodoList object as the TableViewer's input– Write (or reuse existing classes) to specify the

following TableViewer event handler objects● ContentProvider, LabelProvider● CellEditor, CellModifier● RowSorter

A Taste of JFace Viewers

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● Create TodoList “model” objectpublic class TodoList implements Serializable {

// The Model's entry-point is here... public static TodoList theList = null;

public TodoList() { theList = this; }

// <continued/>...

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● Create TodoList “model” object (continued) public Object[] toArray() { Object[] results = new Object[todoList.size()]; int i = 0; Iterator iter = todoList.keySet().iterator(); while (iter.hasNext()) { results[i] = todoList.get(iter.next()); ++i; } return results; }

}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Steps to add to-do list editor to application– Create TodoList “model” object– Add TableViewer object to layout– Initialize TableViewer– Set TodoList object as the TableViewer's input– Write (or reuse existing classes) to specify the

following TableViewer event handler objects● ContentProvider, LabelProvider● CellEditor, CellModifier● RowSorter

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Add TableViewer object to layoutprotected Control createContents(Composite parent) { Composite contents = new Blotter(parent, SWT.NULL);

return contents;}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Add TableViewer object to layoutprotected Control createContents(Composite parent) { Composite contents = new Blotter(parent, SWT.NULL); GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(1, false); layout.marginHeight = 20; layout.marginWidth = 20; contents.setLayout(layout);

table = new TableViewer(contents, SWT.BORDER | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.FULL_SELECTION); table.setLayoutData( new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH)); return contents;}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Steps to add to-do list editor to application– Create TodoList “model” object– Add TableViewer object to layout– Initialize TableViewer– Set TodoList object as the TableViewer's input– Write (or reuse existing classes) to specify the

following TableViewer event handler objects● ContentProvider, LabelProvider● CellEditor, CellModifier● RowSorter

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Initialize TableViewer...protected Control createContents(Composite parent) { Composite contents = new Blotter(parent, SWT.NULL); GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(1, false); layout.marginHeight = 20; layout.marginWidth = 20; contents.setLayout(layout);

table = new TableViewer(contents, SWT.BORDER | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.FULL_SELECTION); table.setLayoutData( new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH)); return contents;}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Initialize TableViewer...protected Control createContents(Composite parent) { Composite contents = new Blotter(parent, SWT.NULL); GridLayout layout = new GridLayout(1, false); layout.marginHeight = 20; layout.marginWidth = 20; contents.setLayout(layout);

table = new TableViewer(contents, SWT.BORDER | SWT.H_SCROLL | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.FULL_SELECTION); table.setLayoutData( new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH)); initTable(); return contents;}

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● Initialize TableViewer... private void initTable() { addColumns(); addProvidersAndEditors(); }

private static final String[] colNames = { "Done", "Priority", "Description" }; private static final int[] colWeight = { 5, 5, 90 };

private static final int COL_DONE = 0; private static final int COL_PRIORITY = 1; private static final int COL_DESC = 2;

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● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

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● Implement addProvidersAndEditors()private void addProvidersAndEditors() { table.setContentProvider( new ContentProvider()); table.setLabelProvider(new LabelProvider());

CellEditor[] editors = { new CheckboxCellEditor(table.getTable()), new TextCellEditor(table.getTable()), new TextCellEditor(table.getTable())}; table.setCellEditors(editors);

table.setCellModifier(new CellModifier()); table.setSorter(new RowSorter());

table.setColumnProperties(colNames);}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Steps to add to-do list editor to application– Create TodoList “model” object– Add TableViewer object to layout– Initialize TableViewer– Set TodoList object as the TableViewer's input– Write (or reuse existing classes) to specify the

following TableViewer event handler objects● ContentProvider, LabelProvider● CellEditor, CellModifier● RowSorter

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● Set TodoList as the TableViewer's input private void initTable() { addColumns(); addProvidersAndEditors(); }

private static final String[] colNames = { "Done", "Priority", "Description" }; private static final int[] colWeight = { 5, 5, 90 };

private static final int COL_DONE = 0; private static final int COL_PRIORITY = 1; private static final int COL_DESC = 2;

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● Set TodoList as the TableViewer's input private void initTable() { addColumns(); addProvidersAndEditors(); table.setInput(TodoList.theList); }

private static final String[] colNames = { "Done", "Priority", "Description" }; private static final int[] colWeight = { 5, 5, 90 };

private static final int COL_DONE = 0; private static final int COL_PRIORITY = 1; private static final int COL_DESC = 2;

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Steps to add to-do list editor to application– Create TodoList “model” object– Add TableViewer object to layout– Initialize TableViewer– Set TodoList object as the TableViewer's input– Write (or reuse existing classes) to specify the

following TableViewer event handler objects● ContentProvider, LabelProvider● CellEditor, CellModifier● RowSorter

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● Implement addProvidersAndEditors()private void addProvidersAndEditors() { table.setContentProvider( new ContentProvider()); table.setLabelProvider(new LabelProvider());

CellEditor[] editors = { new CheckboxCellEditor(table.getTable()), new TextCellEditor(table.getTable()), new TextCellEditor(table.getTable())}; table.setCellEditors(editors);

table.setCellModifier(new CellModifier()); table.setSorter(new RowSorter());

table.setColumnProperties(colNames);}

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● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

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● A closer look at JFace “event handler objects”

Event Handler When TriggeredContentProvider On setInput(), refresh(), update()LabelProvider A cell needs redrawingCellEditor Edit cell valueCellModifier Fetch editable value / store valueRowSorter On table redraw

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● A closer look at JFace “event handler objects”

Event Handler When TriggeredContentProvider On setInput(), refresh(), update()LabelProvider A cell needs redrawingCellEditor Edit cell valueCellModifier Fetch editable value / store valueRowSorter On table redraw

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● Implementing ContentProviderprivate class ContentProvider implements IStructuredContentProvider { public Object[] getElements( Object inputElement) { return ((TodoList)inputElement).toArray(); }

public void dispose() {} public void inputChanged(Viewer viewer, Object oldInput, Object newInput) {}}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

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● A closer look at JFace “event handler objects”

Event Handler When TriggeredContentProvider On setInput(), refresh(), update()LabelProvider A cell needs redrawingCellEditor Edit cell valueCellModifier Fetch editable value / store valueRowSorter On table redraw

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● Implementing LabelProviderprivate class LabelProvider implements ITableLabelProvider {

private Image done; private Image notdone; public LabelProvider() { done = ImageDescriptor.createFromFile( TodoListWindow.class, "icons/task-done.png").createImage(); notdone = ImageDescriptor.createFromFile( TodoListWindow.class, "icons/task-open.png").createImage(); }

// <continued/>...

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● Implementing LabelProvider public Image getColumnImage(Object element, int columnIndex) { if (columnIndex == COL_DONE) { Todo todo = (Todo) element; if (todo.isDone()) { return done; } else { return notdone; } } return null; }

// <continued/>...

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● Implementing LabelProvider public String getColumnText(Object element, int columnIndex) {

Todo todo = (Todo) element; switch (columnIndex) { case COL_PRIORITY: return Integer.toString( todo.getPriority());

case COL_DESC: return todo.getDesc(); default: return ""; } } // <continued/>...

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● Implementing LabelProvider public boolean isLabelProperty( Object element, String property) { return true; }

public void dispose() { done.dispose(); notdone.dispose(); }

public void addListener( ILabelProviderListener listener) {}

public void removeListener( ILabelProviderListener listener) {}}

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● A closer look at JFace “event handler objects”

Event Handler When TriggeredContentProvider On setInput(), refresh(), update()LabelProvider A cell needs redrawingCellEditor Edit cell valueCellModifier Fetch editable value / store valueRowSorter On table redraw

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● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

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● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

The visible editor

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● JFace TableViewer usage

TableViewerTodoList

TreeMap

Todo

“input”

ContentProvider

LabelProvider

RowSorter

CellEditor

CellModifier

Translates betweenvisible editor's

data type and themodel's storage

data type

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● Implementing CellModifierprivate class CellModifier implements ICellModifier {

public boolean canModify(Object element, String property) { return true; }

// <continued/>...

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● Implementing CellModifierpublic Object getValue(Object element, String property) { Todo todo = (Todo) element; if (property.equals(colNames[COL_DONE])) { return new Boolean(todo.isDone()); } else if (property.equals(colNames[COL_PRIORITY])) { return Integer.toString(todo.getPriority()); } else if (property.equals(colNames[COL_DESC])) { return todo.getDesc(); } return null;}// <continued/>...

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● Implementing CellModifier public void modify(Object element, String property, Object value) { Item item = (Item) element; Todo todo = (Todo) item.getData();

if (property.equals(colNames[COL_DONE])) { boolean val = ((Boolean)value).booleanValue(); todo.setDone(val); } else if (property.equals(colNames[COL_PRIORITY])) { // ...handle the other columns similarly } table.refresh(); }}

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A Taste of JFace Viewers

● A closer look at JFace “event handler objects”

Event Handler When TriggeredContentProvider On setInput(), refresh(), update()LabelProvider A cell needs redrawingCellEditor Edit cell valueCellModifier Fetch editable value / store valueRowSorter On table redraw

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● Implementing RowSorterprivate class RowSorter extends ViewerSorter {

public int compare(Viewer viewer, Object element1, Object element2) {

Todo t1 = (Todo) element1; Todo t2 = (Todo) element2;

return t1.getPriority() - t2.getPriority(); }}

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● A closer look at JFace “event handler objects”

Event Handler When RequiredContentProvider AlwaysLabelProvider AlwaysCellEditor If grid is not read-onlyCellModifier If grid is not read-onlyRowSorter If grid is sorted

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● So here's what we just built...

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SWT GUI Builders

● Shortens the learning curve by handling layout tasks for you

● Easier to quickly prototype an interface● Several commercial SWT GUI builders are

under development

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SWT GUI Builders (under development)

● V4All– Ramen Assisi

● Scott Stanchfield's unnamed GUI builder● SWTworkbench

– Advanced Systems Concepts

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Summary

● SWT provides a fast, native user interface for rich client Java applications.

● SWT has taken two meanings depending on if a formal or informal context is being used:

– Formal: SWT = Java-wrapped O/S widgets.– Informal: SWT+JFace all the way up to the entire

Eclipse application framework.● SWT and Swing have complementary (not

competitive) strengths and weaknesses.

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Source Code Availability

● Complete source code is available at– http://www.swtworkbench.com/wsee_2003.zip

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SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit

Any questions?

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SWT Development Resources

● SWT Home Page– http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/

%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/main.html● SWT articles at Eclipse.org

– http://www.eclipse.org/articles/index.html● SWT/JFace page on the Eclipse Wiki

– http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/2● See especially the “Hello, world” examples provided

here.

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SWT Development Resources (cont.)

● SWT Development Resources / Examples– http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/

%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html● Especially note the code snippets starting about

halfway down the page.

● SWT FAQ– http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/

%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/faq.html

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SWT GUI Builder Resources

● GUI builder page on the Eclipse Wiki– http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/145

● Sweet Project Home Page– http://sweet-swt.sourceforge.net

● Sweet is an open source, cross-vendor effort to provide SWT metadata to all SWT GUI builders. Basically, it's BeanInfo for SWT.

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Relevant Eclipse Resources

● Eclipse.org newsgroups, archives, IRC– http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html– http://www.eclipse.org/search/search.cgi– irc://irc.freenode.net/#eclipse

● Eclipse Wiki– http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/1

● Eclipse plug-in registry– http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net/

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