[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: how to pack a SWT stand alone app?

[Hans Deragon <hans@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julien Orange wrote:
> from http://download.eclipse.org/downloads/drops/R-2.1-200303272130/index.php :
>
> To run a standalone SWT application, add the swt jar(s) to the classpath and add the directory/folder for the SWT JNI library to the
> java.library.path.
> For example, if you extract the download below to C:\SWT you would launch the HelloWorld application with the following command:
>
>  java -classpath C:\SWT\swt.jar;C:\MyApp\helloworld.jar -Djava.library.path=C:\SWT  HelloWorld
>
> The SWT jar and DLL downloads are available on the same page.
>
> Julien

If you use JFace widgets, you will have to initialize the platform.  This is 
what I was told for bug #35715.

http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35715

Unfortunatly, I do not know how to do this.  I read the doc, but could not 
figure out how to get an existing application converted into a standalone 
plugin, and what is required for this plugin to run outside the Eclipse platform.

I am more and more thinking of dumping JFace widget use and create my own in 
my SWT MVC Wrapepr library (ttp://swtmvcwrapper.sourceforge.net).


Sincerely,
Hans Deragon
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