For learning Eclipse RCP, reading a book is not the most efficient way. We can find a lot of free resources on line. Other than programcreek.com, there are a lot of tutorials that are written by experienced Eclipse RCP developers. Here are some learning resource I have found useful. 1. Official document website of Eclipse: … Read more
To develop a standalone desktop GUI application by using eclipse RCP, exporting it to be a product is necessary. This tutorial is about how to use the Eclipse Product export wizard to generate executable stand-alone desktop application. This article assumes that you know how to build a plug-in project by using eclipse RCP wizard. Here … Read more
Eclipse RCP is a good platform to develop GUI desktop application. There is a bottleneck for programmers to learn how to build a rich client application. I am always very curious about if there is a most efficient way. This may be considered as a software engineering problem. The problem is how SE techniques can … Read more
If you want to develop Java Desktop application, you probably have two choices of libraries: SWT vs. Swing. Where there is pros and cons for both of them, here is a comparison between them. Recall the role of Standard Widget Tootlkit (SWT) in eclipse platform below. JFace is a high-level user interface(UI) widget library built … Read more
This Diagram is from Addison Wesley’s “Eclipse Rich Client Platform 2nd Edition”. It demonstrates the relations between window, menu, perspective, views, etc. In brief, window is the whole application view and it has one page. The page has its own editor and view instances, and uses the perspective to determine its layout. A view is … Read more
The following example is actually from eclipse. It simply adds a Menu to the menu bar and a icon to the tool bar. When the menu item in the new menu or the icon in tool bar is clicked, a message dialog pops up. File->New->Project->Plug-in Project Project name: HelloWordMenu File Structure: MANIFEST.MF specifies the dependency. … Read more
Eclipse RCP provides an easy way to create desktop applications with industry standards. Once you understand how the framework works, it’s very straightforward to add more views, perspectives, etc. This article shows how to create a simple rich client application with a view by using development wizard. It also explains the role of each file … Read more
Adding vertical scroll bar to a text area in RCP is straightforward. You should use SWT static field value to set the style. Text text = new Text(top, SWT.MULTI | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.BORDER);Text text = new Text(top, SWT.MULTI | SWT.V_SCROLL | SWT.BORDER); * This answer is from the book “Eclipse Rich Client Platform 2nd” which … Read more
File chooser or Directory choose is a common module when file processing is involved in a GUI application. This article use an example to illustrate how to use file chooser/directory chooser under Eclipse RCP, and gives the source code which can be used directly. Under Eclipse RCP, the implementation is simple and the usage is … Read more