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

[Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

the easiest way to start Eclipes RCP development is to download the  	
Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers distribution from 
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Tab Eclipse Packages.

Best regards, Lars


Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
> 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