Tag Archives: SWT

JFace Dialogs : which one is right for you ?

Posted on March 15, 2008 by sureshkrishna

JFace framework of Eclipse provides many standard and useful dialogs and a framework to build custom dialogs and wizards. When the standard dialogs seems to be too simple for your plugin or RCP developement, one can extend the standard dialogs … Continue reading →

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org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Unable to load graphics library [GDI+ is required] (java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError)

Posted on August 25, 2007 by sureshkrishna

This is the SWTException that you might see on the W2K machine. This cause for this exception is absence of GDI+ library (gdiplus.dll) on Windows 2000. On WindowsXP and Vista they come by default and its taken care of. Don’t … Continue reading →

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Eclipse SWT Browser and Cross Browser compatibility

Posted on August 22, 2007 by sureshkrishna

I have been using the Browser widget from past 1 year in my project which is targetted on AJAX and SOA kind of integration environments in Eclipse. As one can imagnine that the inbuilt browser capabilities are necessary on AJAX … Continue reading →

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Minimum set of plug-ins for Eclipse RCP

Posted on December 4, 2006 by sureshkrishna

There has been a lot of confusion about the RCP and the number of plug-ins. Does org.eclipse.core.resources or org.eclipse.ui.ide a part of the RCP plug-ins. As i have seen and built the RCP applications…there are only TWO plug-ins needed for … Continue reading →

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What does Eclipse RCP Provide ?

Posted on December 4, 2006 by sureshkrishna

For all those who think of the Eclipse as Java IDE, please ….come out of this notion. If you strip all the plug-ins that makes Java IDE, then we are left with the core components like… views, perspectives, menus, toolbars, … Continue reading →

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