Supported SWT Code Snippets

• "Hello World"
• Accessibility
  • an accessible listener to provide state information
  • override the text that is spoken for a native Button
• Browser
  • check if the browser is available or not
  • bring up a browser (single window)
  • bring up a browser (support for new windows and pop-up filter)
  • render HTML from memory
  • render HTML that includes relative links from memory
  • modify DOM (execute javascript)
  • query DOM node value
  • modify HTML title tag
• BusyIndicator
  • display busy cursor during long running task
• Button
  • set the default button
  • make a toggle button have radio behavior
• Canvas
  • scroll an image (flicker free, no double buffering)
  • implement tab traversal (behave like a tab group)
• Caret
  • create a caret
  • create a caret (using an image)
• Clipboard
  • copy and paste data with the clipboard
  • enable/disable menu depending on clipboard content availability
• Combo
  • create a combo box (non-editable)
  • detect return in a combo box (default selelection)
  • prevent CR from going to the default button
• Composite
  • scroll a child control automatically
  • set the tab traversal order of children
  • create and dispose children of a composite
  • force radio behavior on two different composites
  • intercept mouse events (drag a button with the mouse)
• Control
  • detect mouse enter, exit and hover events
  • prevent Tab from traversing out of a control
  • print key state, code and character
  • print mouse state and button (down, move, up)
• CoolBar
  • create a cool bar
  • create a cool bar (relayout when resized)
  • drop-down a chevron menu containing hidden tool items
• CTabFolder, CTabItem
  • prevent an item from closing
  • min and max buttons, close button and image only on selected tab
• Cursor
  • set the hand cursor into a control
  • create a cursor from a source and a mask
  • create a color cursor from a source and a mask
  • create a color cursor from an image file
• DirectoryDialog
  • prompt for a directory
• Display
  • create two one shot timers (5000 ms, 2000 ms)
  • create one repeating timer (every 500 ms)
  • stop a repeating timer when a button is pressed
  • get the bounds and client area of a display
  • fill a table from a background thread (sync exec)
  • post mouse events (UI testing tools only)
  • post key events (UI testing tools only)
• Drag and Drop
  • drag text between two labels
  • drag leaf items in a tree
  • define my own data transfer type
  • define a default operation (in this example, Copy)
  • determine data types available (win32 only)
  • determine data types available (motif only)
  • Dropped data type depends on target item in table
• FileDialog
  • prompt for a file name (to save)
• Font
  • create a large font for use by a text widget
• FormLayout
  • create a simple dialog using form layout
  • center a label and single line text using a form layout
  • create a simple OK/CANCEL dialog using form layout
• GC
  • draw a thick line
  • measure a string
  • implement a simple scribble program
  • create an icon (in memory)
  • capture a widget image with a GC
  • draw lines with different cap and join styles
  • drawing with transformations, paths and alpha blending
• GridLayout
  • align widgets in rows and columns
  • insert widgets into a grid layout
  • exclude an invisible widget from a grid layout
• Image
  • display an image in a group
  • rotate and flip an image
  • display an animated GIF
• Label
  • create a label (with an image)
  • create a label (a separator)
• Link
  • create a link widget
  • detect selection events in a link widget
• List
  • print selected items in a list
• Menu
  • create a bar and pull down menu (accelerators, mnemonics)
  • create a popup menu (set in multiple controls)
  • create a menu with radio items
  • enable menu items dynamically (when menu shown)
  • fill a menu dynamically (when menu shown)
  • show a popup menu (wait for it to close)
  • update a status line when an item is armed
  • access About, Preferences and Quit menus on carbon
• Monitor
  • center a shell on the primary monitor
• OLE and ActiveX
  • get events from IE control
  • browse the typelibinfo for a program id
  • embed Word in an applet
  • reading and writing to a SAFEARRAY
  • execute a script function that exists on a web page
• OpenGL
  • draw a rectangle
• Printing
  • print "Hello World!" in black, outlined in red, to default printer
  • print text to printer, with word wrap and pagination
• Program
  • find the icon of the program that edits .bmp files
  • invoke an external batch file
  • invoke the system text editor on autoexec.bat
• ProgressBar
  • update a progress bar (from the UI thread)
  • update a progress bar (from another thread)
• RowLayout
  • Lay out widgets in a row
  • Lay out widgets in a column
• Sash
  • create a sash (allow it to be moved)
  • implement a simple splitter (with a 20 pixel limit)
• SashForm
  • create a sash form with three children
• Scale
  • create a scale (maximum 40, page increment 5)
• ScrolledComposite
  • scroll a control in a scrolled composite
  • create a ScrolledComposite with wrapping content
  • create two ScrolledComposites that scroll in tandem
  • Scroll widgets into view when they get focus
• Shell
  • create a dialog shell
  • create a dialog shell (prompt for a value)
  • create a splash screen
  • prevent a shell from closing (prompt the user)
  • prevent escape from closing a dialog
  • open a shell minimized (iconified)
  • open a shell maximized (full screen)
  • create a non-rectangular window
  • set icons with different resolutions
  • emulate transparent shell
• Slider
  • print scroll event details
• Spinner
  • create and initialize a spinner widget
  • use floats in a spinner widget
• StyledText
  • change font style, foreground and background colors of StyledText
  • underline and strike through text
• Swing/AWT
  • embed Swing/AWT in SWT
  • embed a JTable in SWT (no flickering)
  • draw an X using AWT Graphics
  • convert between SWT Image and AWT BufferedImage
• TabFolder, TabItem
  • create a tab folder (six pages)
• Table, TableItem, TableColumn
  • add 1000 sorted entries to a virtual table every 500 ms
  • color cells and rows in table
  • create a table (no columns, no headers)
  • create a table (columns, headers, lines)
  • create a table with 1,000,000 items (lazy)
  • create a table (lazy with a thread)
  • detect a selection or check event in a table (SWT.CHECK)
  • find a table cell from mouse down (SWT.FULL_SELECTION)
  • find a table cell from mouse down (works for any table style)
  • insert a table item (at an index)
  • insert a table column (at an index)
  • make columns reorderable by dragging
  • place arbitrary controls in a table
  • print selected items in a table
  • remove selected items
  • resize columns as table resizes
  • scroll a table (set the top index)
  • select an index (select and scroll)
  • sort a table by column
  • update table item text
• TableCursor
  • navigate a table cells with arrow keys
• TableEditor
  • edit the text of a table item (in place)
  • edit a cell in a table (in place, fancy)
  • place a progress bar in a table
• Text
  • add a select all menu item to the control
  • detect CR in a text control (default selelection)
  • prevent CR from going to the default button
  • prompt for a password (set the echo character)
  • resize a text control (show about 10 characters)
  • select all the text in the control
  • set the selection (i-beam)
  • set the selection (start, end)
  • verify input (only allow digits)
  • verify input in a template (YYYY/MM/DD)
  • detect when the user scrolls a text control
• TextLayout, TextStyle
  • draw internationalized styled text on a shell
• ToolBar, ToolItem
  • create a tool bar (text)
  • create a flat tool bar (images)
  • create tool bar (normal, hot and disabled images)
  • create tool bar (wrap on resize)
  • place a combo box in a tool bar
  • place a drop down menu in a tool bar
  • update a status line when the pointer enters a ToolItem
• Tool Tips
  • create tool tips for a tab folder, tool bar and control
  • create fake tool tips for items in a table
• Tracker
  • create a tracker (drag on mouse down)
  • create a tracker (drag when "torn off")
• Tray, TrayItem
  • place a popup menu on the system tray
• Tree
  • create a tree
  • create a tree (lazy)
  • detect a selection or check event in a tree (SWT.CHECK)
  • insert a tree item (at an index)
  • print selected items in a tree
  • limit selection to items that match a pattern
  • detect mouse down in a tree item
  • create a tree with columns
• TreeEditor
  • edit the text of a tree item (in place, fancy)

©2005 Stefan Matthias Aust