AWT, Swing and Java2D Integration

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ AWT, Swing and Java2D Integration <h2>AWT/Swing and SWT Co-existence</h2> Since Eclipse 3.0, the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://help.eclipse.org/help33/nftopic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/swt/awt/package-summary.html">org.eclipse.swt.awt</a> package has provided an SWT_AWT bridge as part of Eclipse. It performs the very basics of hosting an AWT frame inside a SWT composite. A recent <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Swing-SWT-Integration/index.html">Eclipse Corner Article: SWT and Swing Integration</a> provides more extensive sample code building on AWT_SWT and dealing with some common integration issues. This code now forms the basis of the proposed <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/albireo/">Eclipse Abireo Project</a> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=swt_awt">Known bugs for SWT_AWT</a> <h2>Swing on SWT</h2> The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://swtswing.sourceforge.net">SwtSwing</a> ports SWT to Swing, effectively treating Swing as another GUI, just as win32, wpf, carbon etc are implemented by Eclipse itself. This also means that SWT applications can run on platforms where there isn’t a native SWT binding. The easiest way to play with SwtSwing is to use the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://eos.sourceforge.net/">EoS</a> plugin. It switches the Eclipse IDE over to Swing, with a choice of look and feel – worth doing this if only for the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://napkinlaf.sourceforge.net/">Napkin LaF</a> <h2>SWT on Swing</h2> The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://swingwt.sourceforge.net">SwingWT</a> does the opposite of SwtSwing, implementing Swing on SWT, using native peered widgets. The underlying SWT controls are exposed for direct access. <h2>SWT in Swing</h2> The <a rel="nofollow" href="http://djproject.sourceforge.net/ns/">DJ Native Swing</a> project uses SWT internally to support native widgets inside Swing <h2>Java2D and Draw2D/GEF</h2> Two projects have bridges between Java 2D and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eclipse.org/gef">Eclipse GEF</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.draw2d.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/draw2d/package-summary.html">Draw2D</a> <ol> <li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.holongate.org/">Holongate</a> </li> <li><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/">JFreeChart</a> – look under experimental SWT in the source tree</li> </ol> <h2>MigLayout a Layout Manager for both SWT and Swing</h2> <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.miglayout.com">MigLayout</a> is a layout manager that works equally good for Swing and SWT. A layout made in one framework will work equally good on the other. swing SwingWT miglayout swtswing Java2D eos ged draw2d SWT Abireo Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:50:04 -0700 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:16:23 -0700