| SWT for carpc GUI [message #450108] |
Tue, 08 February 2005 11:43 |
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Originally posted by: bamthomas.free.fr
Hi all,
I'm planning to develop a car pc graphic interface to control multimédia
features and navigation mode in an embedded PC with touchscreen.
I'm having a look to SWT, I have already coded Swing GUI but never SWT.
I have a général question :
Do you think that it is possible with SWT to develop this kind of GUI
(like for example http://freevo.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html) knowing
that the hot point is a great graphical design. This means typically for
example big oval buttons with mouse over effects, background image and
maybe transparency effects...
In fact like freevo GUI does.
I know that it is based on native interface so all is potententialy
feasible but I'd like to avoid if possible to develop plateform specific
code.
Then a more technical and precise question :
- I tried to make a little prototype to see what I could do with SWT. The
application must display menus leading to sub-menus and final features :
so there is a window switching issue.
I made this with several container components, that I set visible or not.
But I can't display a background image for each of them. I can display a
window for the shell, but as the container components are at the top of it
and not transparent, the image is not visible. The same for labels and
buttons (when attached directly to the shell), they hide the background
image...
Do you think this is the good way for doing this ? do see a solution to
this problem ? do you think that SWT does'nt meet the requirements for a
this kind of carpc GUI ?
Thank you for your help,
Best regards,
Bruno Thomas
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