[news.eclipse.tools] Re: GUI-Editor will support SWT, new Home-Url

["Randy Faust" <faust@xxxxxxx>]

SWT does not look the same across platforms. It looks like the native
windowing system of whatever platform its on.


Randy


"Kevin" <kduffey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Is SWT skinnable? Or is it the same look? Swing has L&F for each OS,
> although I am using one (Metouia) that is very nice. Can you do the same
> thing with SWT so that you can have different looks to window borders,
> scroll bars, buttons, backgrounds, etc? I like SWT's performance, but I am
> not too fond of the one look to it on all platforms. Actually, that
doesn't
> bother me for Eclipse, but if I wanted to write my own apps with SWT I
would
> like the ability to have an option of skinnable window features such as
> borders, colors, button styles (round, shadowed, etc), scroll bars, and so
> forth. Basically each component should be able to be skinnable in some
> manner.
>
> Thanks.
>
> "David Whiteman" <dwhitema@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > "exquisitus" <assisi2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > I think, that people who would like to program SWT, from time to time
> > would
> > > also like to
> > > do something with swing.
> >
> > I am one example of someone who programs in SWT that will likely not
touch
> > Swing much (if at all) in the future.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
>
>