[news.eclipse.technology.albireo] Re: For Starters...

[Gordon Hirsch <gordon.hirsch@xxxxxxx>]

Cklewis wrote:
> I just wanted to drop my thoughts and say I think this will be a great 
> and very useful project. I'm glad there's always people out there trying 
> to make things easier for the rest of us, in this case the SWT/Swing 
> integration.

It's really helpful to know of your interest and what you are working 
on, so thanks for that.

...
> I downloaded the examples, but none of them are runnable when I tried 
> them. It would have been helpful to actually have code for a runnable 
> program that embedded a swing component in it, even if it was a small 
> snippet.

Sorry about that. You didn't mention if you are writing an Eclipse RCP 
application or just a standalone SWT application. Below is a snippet 
that implements an RCP view with a simple embedded Swing JTable, using 
the code included with the article. If you're writing a standalone SWT 
application, you should be able to take just the code from 
createPartControl() and added it to a shell or some other composite. 
Once you get it running, you should also be able to replace the JTable 
with another component of your choice. Make sure you take a look at the 
javadoc as well. The sample code still has some issues, as you can see 
from some of the other posts in this newsgroup.

public class JTableView extends ViewPart {

    private EmbeddedSwingComposite embeddedComposite;

    public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
        embeddedComposite = new EmbeddedSwingComposite(parent, SWT.NONE) {
            protected JComponent createSwingComponent() {
                /* Creating components */
                int nrows = 1000, ncolumns = 10;
                Vector rows = new Vector();
                for (int i = 0; i < nrows; i++) {
                    Vector row = new Vector();
                    for (int j = 0; j < ncolumns; j++) {
                        row.addElement("Item " + i + "-" + j);
                    }
                    rows.addElement(row);
                }
                Vector columns = new Vector();
                for (int i = 0; i < ncolumns; i++) {
                    columns.addElement("Column " + i);
                }
                JTable table = new JTable(rows, columns);
                table.setAutoResizeMode(JTable.AUTO_RESIZE_OFF);
                table.createDefaultColumnsFromModel();

                JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(table);

                return scrollPane;
            }
        };
        embeddedComposite.populate();
    }

    public void setFocus() {
        embeddedComposite.setFocus();
    }

}