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Distributing VE-developed standalone SWT application [message #614701] Mon, 09 October 2006 11:19
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Originally posted by: alexander.beisig.gmx.de

Hello,

I'd like to use the Visual Editor to ease the GUI development for my SWT
application. Before the VE I used the SWT standalone SWT package. I
downloaded and unzipped the archive "swt-3.2-win32-win32-x86.zip", added
swt.jar as external jar in eclipse, set up the source and native library
paths. For distribution, I just created a jar of my application and
copied swt.jar and the dll files into the same directory. All of this
worked pretty well.

With VE, I could not get the independant SWT files to work. When I open
my classes in the VE, the widgets aren't shown and the no SWT items
appear on the palette. If I add a visual class however, VE
automatically adds the jar of SWT distributed with Eclipse to the
project. The VE then works fine with that version of SWT instead of the
standalone SWT files.

I can live with VE using the SWT files bundled with eclipse, but I'm not
sure how I should distribute my standalone application now. Can I still
use the files from the standalone SWT zip along with a jar of my
application, or might I run into some version conflicts with them?
Should I instead distribute my application with the SWT jar that comes
with eclipse? The eclipse SWT jar has the native dlls embedded in the
jar, can my application even use them without unpacking them first? Is
there a way to make the VE work with the standalone SWT files instead of
the SWT bundled with eclipse? Should I be doing something completely
different at any step of my setup?

Thanks,
Alex
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