[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Newbie-Question: JFace Actions with SWT

[Greg Robson <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you don't mind spending a bit of money, buy this book:

The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace
Rob Warner with Robert Harris
Published by Apress

I have it on my desk right now, and it takes you through all you could 
ever want to know. So long as you're a fairly competant programmer, it 
should be easy to whip through the book and learn all about the way it 
fits together.

Most objects have specific listeners and such, but you often find you 
can add more generic ones as well. i.e. addListener(Listener l) instead 
of addSpecialisedTypeOfListener(SpecialisedTypeOfListener l).

Greg

Christian Schlaefcke wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I just started getting familiar with SWT/JFace. I found a few articles 
> at www.javaworld.com and downloades the two sample chapter from the 
> "SWT/JFace in Action" book. I played around with the event model of 
> JFace and found that I can only use it with the menu-, toolbar-, 
> statusline components.
>
> But what about the rest of my application? Is the jface event model not 
> applicable on my pushbuttons, listboxes, etc.? Do I have to use the SWT 
> event model for that. If so, I wonder what the goal of JFace is. As IÂm 
> pretty new to this subject at all, I also wonder if I missed some of the 
> main concepts of JFace. Is it just a toolkit for designing the mainframe 
> of an application and some of the major components (TableView, TreeView)?
>
> It would be nice if somebody could help me understanding this or point 
> me to some good articles.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Chris