[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Trouble with RCP Tutorial

[eric@xxxxxx (Eric Kolotyluk)]

Lars Vogel wrote:

> Hi Eric,


> While I have pesonal not used it I believe you are looking for the SWT - 
> Swing bridge. I believe the following gives a description 
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Swing-SWT-Integration/index.html

> If you looking for a Eclipse RCP Tutorial based on Eclipse 3.4 you could 
> use the following: 
> http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html

> Best regards, Lars

I checked out the bridge article, unfortunately it seem to just be a way 
to embed awt/swing components into an existing SWT application. What I 
want is a way to build the entire RCP application in Swing because our 
existing application uses a custom Swing PLAF (that cost a lot to develop).

You're tutorial looks a little better than the one I tried, but I'm 
confused: When I tried to install the RCP development plug-in into Eclipse 
3.4 it said they were incompatible and directed me to a web page to 
download "Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers" - after running that it 
showed the version as Eclipse 3.3.

Cheers, Eric