SWT: The Standard Widget Toolkit | The Eclipse Foundation (original) (raw)
SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented.
Welcome
Welcome to SWT! You may have come to this page looking for snippets (little code examples) or examples (big code examples like ControlExample);widget snapshots or documentation. Or maybe you want to request a feature, report a bug, or ask a question. Whatever the reason, you will find many resources here. Enjoy!
Downloads
| Latest Release Download page For links to latest released version of the SWT Binary and Source for all platforms, select the entry for the latest official release and then click on SWT Binary and Source from the menu on the left. |
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| Stable Builds Download page For links to stable milestone builds of the SWT Binary and Source for all platforms, select the entry for the latest milestone build and then click on SWT Binary and Source from the menu on the left. |
| Integration Builds Download page For links to daily Integration builds of SWT Binary and Source for all platforms, select a current integration build (select entry starting with I in the Integration builds) and then click on SWT Binary and Source from the menu on the left. |
| Maven Artifacts SWT fragments for all the supported platforms are published to Maven Central for every release. The table below contains the links to the artifacts. |
Articles
- 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
- How to generate the SWT JNI Code for Cocoa
- Using OpenGL in SWT Applications
- Many more articles about SWT on Eclipse Corner at eclipse.org
- Full list of articles and documentation
Resources
- SWT wiki
- Widget screenshots with links to documentation
- Snippets, helpful little code examples
- Examples, helpful big code examples
- The SWT FAQ answers many common questions
- Tools and Plug-ins for SWT developers
- Online Javadoc
- Books and additional documentation
- Test Plan for SWT
- SWT Community Page
- SWTBot, UI/functional testing tool for SWT and Eclipse based applications.
- Eclipse/SWT Accessibility wiki
Contact Us
SWT development is discussed and tracked in theEclipse bugzilla under the Platform/SWT component. You can subscribe to the new bug inbox by watching platform-swt-inbox@eclipse.org from your bugzilla email preferences.
If you are modifying or porting SWT and have questions, try theSWT developer mailing list [archive,search].