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Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT shells, windows, and composites
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Hi,
if I were you, I would seriously reconsider starting with the RCP platform instead of using standalone SWT. RCP will save you a tremendous amount of time, and immediately makes your program extensible with other plugins. Just have a look at
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-RCP-1/tutorial1.html to get started. The guys who started the RCP platform also knew very well what they were doing, and they are using a lot of optimizations that would give you a hard time to achieve yourself.
Regards,
Leen Toelen
On 3/2/06, Mike Wilson <Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Note that all he's asking for is something
"MDI-like", not that they actually have to be shells. So to implement
this, he could roll his own "container" composites (with custom
drag/resize handles) and have them all be parented inside the shell.
McQ.
Carolyn MacLeod/Ottawa/IBM@IBMCA
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This is called MDI or "Multiple Document Interface".
Please read the following bug report, and add yourself as a CC:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=29891
For future info, the usual place to ask user questions is the SWT
newsgroup:
news://news.eclipse.org/eclipse.platform.swt
Welcome to SWT!
Carolyn
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[platform-swt-dev] SWT shells, windows, and composites
Is it currently possible to develop a standalone SWT application that
consists of a master widget shell and many smaller free 'shell-like'
windows all contained inside the display of this master so that the OS
only cares about the master window and the child windows are completely
managed within the master shell?
Think how Adobe Photoshop on Windows manages all the open images the user
is working with. The user is free to minimize, maximize, resize,
all
these image windows within the context of the single application so that
there aren't a million little application windows listed on their Taskbar.
At first I thought I could make a new Shell the free moving child of a
scrolled Composite widget, but it looks like the javadoc says Shell()s
only come from Displays or other Shells.
Is there another way of building the interface I described above? I'm
very new to SWT and am not familiar with all the widgets and their
capabilities.
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