Re: [platform-swt-dev] gtk port

["Veronika Irvine/OTT/OTI" <Veronika_Irvine@xxxxxxx>]

If you want to run a standalone SWT application you do not need the platform-launcher - this creates the eclipse executable which simply brings up a splash screen and launches Eclipse via a java command.

If you just want to hack around SWT - you only need the swt library and the swt jar.  Look at the project org.eclipse.swt.

For examples of simple standalone SWT applications, look at the project org.eclipse.swt.examples.

In answer to the various questions you have raised:

The splash_full.xpm and splash_basic.xpm are not part of the "platform-launcher" or anywhere else in CVS - they are added in by the guys who package up the build.
You can get a copy of the files by downloading the linux motif eclipse SDK and look in eclipse/splash.

The build.properties are read by an eclipse plugin which produces from them an ANT script and then ANT is used to build the jars and src.zip files for each plugin.

All building of the libraries (swt-win32.dll, libswt-linux.so etc) is done by the SWT team and the compiled libraries are released into the CVS repository.  The code and makefiles for these libraries can be found in org.eclipse.swt/Eclipse SWT/motif/library etc.

There are several articles about SWT on eclipse corner. See:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/main.html

http://www.eclipsecorner.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.html

http://www.eclipsecorner.org/articles/Article-Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget/Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget.htm

http://www.eclipsecorner.org/articles/SWT%20Color%20Model/swt-color-model.htm

Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 14/11/2001 03:38 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: 
>  - this may simply be my lack of Java skills, but I'm not sure how to
>    go from changing some of the code in the downloaded zip, to running
>    a new executable based on my modified copy.  Can someone point me
>    in the right direction? How do I test changes?

So I discovered anoncvs is available, which seems more promising than
the zip download, but am still getting nowhere on building the
thing. Surely there is a script that compiles/installs the IDE? I see
these build.properties files, what reads those? Should I be using
Eclipse itself to build Eclipse? Which of the modules listed in
CVSROOT/modules do I need to get started?

The web site has tons of docs on developing plugins and such, but I
can't find any docs at all that simply list which modules to grab from
CVS, and how to build/install the code after I have them.

I've found the "platform-launcher" module and run build.csh, but that
just generates a C executable that doesn't work - I run it as follows:

   $ ./eclipse -vm /opt/IBMJava2-13/bin/java
   Warning: Couldn't load the pixmap /mnt/space/cvs/eclipse-cvs/platform-launcher/library/motif/./splash/C/splash_full.xpm.

   Warning: Couldn't load the pixmap /mnt/space/cvs/eclipse-cvs/platform-launcher/library/motif/./splash/C/splash_full.xpm.

   Warning: Couldn't load the pixmap /mnt/space/cvs/eclipse-cvs/platform-launcher/library/motif/./splash/splash_full.xpm.

   Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/eclipse/core/launcher/Main

So my grep attempts aren't finding this class in the source code -
where does it live? find -name splash_full.xpm also turns up nothing -
where can I find that?

Sorry for the no doubt clueless questions, I'm sure it's all obvious
once someone points it out. ;-) Are there docs somewhere on this topic?

Havoc
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