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RE: [platform-swt-dev] "Upgrading" from SWT to JFace
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Sorry didnot know if I exactly understood your question. But yes, you can use JFace viewers with your SWT controls in your SWT application. No need to use JFaces windows if you like to stick to your "old" SWT app pattern.
Regards,
Yu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of ext
> Bertram Herzog
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 10:23 PM
> To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [platform-swt-dev] "Upgrading" from SWT to JFace
>
>
> Hello altogether,
> I have a fairly complex graphical application that uses SWT
> to display
> my graphics. Is it possible, for the sake of a more elaborate
> control-GUI and common SWING-understandings, like MVC, to
> "upgrade" to
> JFace?
>
> I had a look at some of the articles on the Eclipse-site and
> always had
> to find out, that JFace applications start from scratch as
> JFace-Applications, extending the ApplicationWindow. Also,
> the typical
> SWT-never-ending-loop is substituted (among others) by the (JFace)
> open() command. My app is fairly complex, and a lot of
> initialisations
> are going on, from when I get the Display until the point,
> when I do the
> open, since the app is kind of "MDI". Is there a chance to
> a) either "upgrade" an existing SWT-application to JFace (by somehow
> wrapping it to the ApplicationWindow, or
> b) "plug in" JFace components in an existing SWT-application.
> This way I
> could use the "JFace-MVC" for Tables and Trees, and still rely on my
> rendering subsystem in SWT.
>
> Any comments are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you very much in advance
> Yours Bertram
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