RE: Eclipse

["David Morris" <David.Morris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe,

I have been using a GUI builder that uses Jelly to build SWT screens
from 
an XML description. It is pretty slick but there is one problem that I
haven't 
been able to get around, which is that the dll version has to match
your 
SWT jar exactly. You can generate a new dll by going through gyrations

or you can find it in the eclipse distribution. I really don't get why
it isn't 
just jared up with a method to deploy on demand, or even better a more

relaxed version requirement where the dll must be at least version
x.x.x.

David


>>> joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 04/03/03 10:04AM >>>

...You can write standalone applications that use the SWT, but you will
need to
include the SWT portion of the Eclipse package in order for your
programs to
run.

However, since SWT is Open Source and freely available on every
platform
that Eclipse is supported, it follows that your applications will also
be
available on every platform that Eclipse is supported.

The specific terminology would be that SWT-based applications are
supported
wherever SWT is supported, but that's not only redundant, it's a bit
useless, since the SWT project is really a subset of the overall
Eclipse
project.  While you can indeed get information specific to SWT (from
FAQs to
newsgroups to mailing lists), SWT code is released as part of the
Eclipse
project cycle...

Joe