Chapter 5. More widgets

 

 

Now that you know how to tie together widgets with events and listeners, we’ll continue our tour of JFace/SWT widgets. The controls we discuss in this chapter will round out your toolbox of widgets and give you an understanding of the majority of controls you’ll be using in a GUI application.

We’ll explore two (mostly) separate approaches to text editing in this chapter. First we’ll discuss in some detail the text widgets built into SWT. We’ll follow this discussion with an overview of the enhanced text support available in JFace. Although the JFace text packages offer more advanced options, they’re also much ...

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