SWT Documentation

SWT in Books

SWT is in print in the following books.

• "SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit, Volume 1" by Steve Northover and Mike Wilson
  This book can be read online at the publisher's web site.
• "The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace" by Rob Warner and Robert Harris
• "The Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse, Second Edition" by Jim D'Anjou, Scott Fairbrother, Dan Kehn, John Kellerman, and Pat McCarthy (Chapter 14)
• "Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plugins" by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck (Chapter 34)
• "Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer" by David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, and Robert McGovern (Appendix D)
• "Eclipse Rich Client Platform: Designing, Coding, and Packaging Java(TM) Applications" by Jeff McAffer and Jean-Michel Lemieux
• "Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins" by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel
• "SWT/JFace in Action: GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0" by Matthew Scarpino, Stephen Holder, Stanford Ng and Laurent Mihalkovic
• "Eclipse" and "Eclipse Cookbook" by Steve Holzner

SWT Documentation Inside Eclipse

The Eclipse Help system contains good solid documentation for SWT in the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide. To get there in Eclipse, select
Help > Help Contents > Platform Plug-in Developer Guide.

SWT documentation appears in the following sections of the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide:

• Programmer's Guide: Standard Widget Toolkit
• Reference: API Reference: org.eclipse.swt.* (javadoc for each package)
• Examples Guide: Standard Widget Toolkit

SWT Online Documentation

In addition to reading SWT documentation inside Eclipse, you can read it online here:

• Programmer's Guide
• API Reference
• Examples Guide
• Online javadoc
• Older versions of the Eclipse documentation

SWT Articles at eclipse.org and eclipse.org/swt

Articles at eclipse.org:

• Articles about SWT on Eclipse Corner at eclipse.org (20 at last count)

Articles at eclipse.org/swt:

• How to develop SWT applications in Eclipse
• How to run the ControlExample and other SWT examples
• How to deploy SWT applications on Mac OS X
• How to generate the SWT JNI Code for Cocoa
• How to deploy SWT applications using Java Web Start
• How to use SWT from GIT
• How to generate the SWT JNI Code
• Using OpenGL with SWT 3.2
• How to fix a bug in SWT

More Articles about SWT

External articles, interviews in online journals:

• SWT articles published in JDJ and OS News:
  • Ship Happens! Insights From the Eclipse SWT Community
  • SWT: A Native Widget Toolkit for Java, Part 1 of 2
  • SWT: A Native Widget Toolkit for Java, Part 2 of 2
  • Desktop Java with SWT: an interview with Steve Northover

• SWT articles on IBM Developerworks Library:
  • Using the Eclipse GUI outside the Eclipse Workbench
  • Integrate ActiveX controls into SWT applications
  • Equipping SWT applications with content assistants
  • A Gentle Introduction to SWT and JFace (4 parts)
  • Create an Eclipse Game Plug-in (4 parts)

SWT Online Tutorials

There have been a few tutorials posted about SWT that you may find useful:

• Getting Started with Eclipse and SWT

This site contains some tutorials and example programs that will help programmers who are new to Eclipse and the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) install Eclipse correctly and run some simple Java/SWT programs.

• Detailed getting started guide with SWT on GTK

A detailed guide for SWT developers on GTK.

• Compiling Eclipse Applications for Windows With GCJ/MinGW

A guide for compiling an SWT application into an executable.

• An introduction to SWT

Adapted from "SWT and JFace", a No Fluff Just Stuff 2004 presentation.