Re: AW: [platform-swt-dev] where to start

[Carolyn_MacLeod@xxxxxxx]

No problem.  :)
Carolyn





Thorsten Mauch <mauch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Carolyn
sorry for posting off topic and 
thanx a lot for your extensice
answer :)

Thorsten

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Firstly, this is not the place to ask user questions - this email list is 
for people developing SWT.
The place to ask user questions is on the eclipse newsgroup.
There are a lot of people monitoring the newsgroup, and your chances of an 

answer are higher.
To set up your news reader to look at the eclipse newsgroup, use this 
address:
        news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.tools
You need a password to access this newsgroup, so go to:
        http://www.eclipsecorner.org/newsgroups/index.html
to request one.

Having said that, however, here is a hint at where you should start:

1) Source code. Download the eclipse SDK and install it. You will find SWT 

under Plugins/org.eclipse.swt.
The source for SWT is in org.eclipse.swt\WS\<your windowing 
system>\swtsrc.zip - to look at it you need to either extract it, or 
import it into eclipse and set the .classpath properly for your windowing 
system platform.

2) Examples. Download the eclipse example plugins and install them in the 
same place as your eclipse SDK. You will find the SWT examples under 
Plugins/org.eclipse.swt.examples, in the following projects:
- org.eclipse.swt.examples
- org.eclipse.swt.examples.controls
- org.eclipse.swt.examples.paint
- org.eclipse.swt.examples.launcher
- org.eclipse.swt.examples.ole.win32 (Windows only)
Restart eclipse, and you can run these examples from Perspective->Show 
View->Other... SWT Examples. If you run the SWT Example Launcher, you can 
see a description of each example, as well as run it.
To look at the example source code you need to either extract from the 
appropriate <example>src.zip, or import the zip into eclipse (after 
importing the swt source and setting the .classpath properly for your 
windowing system platform).

3) Documentation.
3a) The Javadoc is here:
http://www.eclipse.org/
Projects
The Eclipse Project
API Reference
The relevant package names all begin with org.eclipse.swt.....

3b) The Programmer's Guide is here:
http://www.eclipse.org/
Projects
The Eclipse Project
Documentation
Platform Plug-in Developer's Guide
(probably easiest if you get the PDF at this point - the html interface 
typically requires too much clicking).
Programmer's Guide
Standard Widget Toolkit

4) The articles are useful for a more in-depth look at certain topics:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/index.html  (scroll down to see the SWT 
articles)
However, you will probably want to read the article on Layouts early on:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Understanding%20Layouts/Understandin
g%20Layouts.htm

5) If you want to see a bit of the "project-development side" of SWT, go 
to this link (there is an under-construction FAQ off of this page that may 

be useful):
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/ma
in.html

6) If you actually want to try to develop some of SWT, then look through 
the archives of this mailing list first to see what has been said, how to 
connect to the repository and set up for developing SWT, etc.

Carolyn





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Hi all
I'm bloody new to SWT, and I have no idea
where to start. I found several articel about special
questions, bit no tutorial or itroduction.
Does somebody can give me hint where I should start

Thanx Thorsten
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