[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Can one use JFace for a standalone appli

["Jeff Gunther" <jeff.gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hans,

If you'd like an example Ant build script that builds and runs an SWT/JFace
application on both Microsoft Windows and Linux, please send an email to
jeff.gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxx . This particular Ant package was completed for
an article I recently authored for IBM developerWorks about developing JFace
wizards.

Jeff

"Hans Deragon" <hans@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:b7s45t$rce$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Jeff Gunther wrote:
> > Hi Hans,
> >
> > Yes, you can use JFace within a standalone application. In fact, I've
even
> > had success with deploying a SWT/JFace application using Sun's Java Web
> > Start.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Greetings.
>
>
>    Thanks, but how do you "initialize" the platform then?  You see, I
opened
> bug #35715 (http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=35715).  John
> Arthorne replied to me suggesting that I should refactor my application to
an
> Eclipse Application using the org.eclipse.core.runtime.application
extension.
>   Now I looked at some doc and found some reference to this
> org.eclipse.core.runtime.application, but I could understand how I convert
my
> project to an Eclipse Application and have the platform initialized.  What
> menu item within the IDE should I select to get things started?  I found
some
> XML that I should enter in the builder configuration:
>
> <extension id="coolApplication"
point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.applications">
>        <application>
>           <run class="com.xyz.applications.Cool">
>              <parameter name="optimize" value="true"/>
>           </run>
>        </application>
> </extension>
>
> But what is the builder configuration?  See, I can't figure out "down to
> earth" how to perform the conversion.  When I select "refactor" after
> selecting my project, I only have two options:  "rename" and "move".
Nothing
> about converting my project to an Eclipse Application.
>
>
> Thanks again for your reply,
> Hans Deragon
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