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Bests SWT/JFace Books for Beginners [message #465910]

Wed, 21 December 2005 15:40

Eclipse User

Hi,

I guess it's a recurrent question but I've been looking in the forum archive or on mailing lists like eclipse.newcomers but didn't find anything interesting on the subject.

What's your recommandation for a beginner wanting to learn SWT and JFace ?

I found this book :
"SWT/JFace in Action : GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932394273

or also this one :
"The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFACE"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593251

Which one is worth the money ? Or maybe you know some others ?

Thanks

Fred

Re: Bests SWT/JFace Books for Beginners [message #465913 is a reply to message #465910]

Wed, 21 December 2005 16:37

Eclipse User

Hi, Fred.

The best place to start learning SWT is http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
The "Documentation" link on that page takes you to
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/docs.php
where there are links to books, articles, other documents, and tutorials on
SWT (and some about JFace also).
Be sure to check out the example snippets!
Welcome!
Carolyn

"Frederic Conrotte" <frederic@conrotte.be> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I guess it's a recurrent question but I've been looking in the forum
> archive or on mailing lists like eclipse.newcomers but didn't find
> anything interesting on the subject.
>
> What's your recommandation for a beginner wanting to learn SWT and JFace ?
>
> I found this book :
> "SWT/JFace in Action : GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0"
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932394273
>
> or also this one :
> "The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFACE"
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593251
>
> Which one is worth the money ? Or maybe you know some others ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred

Re: Bests SWT/JFace Books for Beginners [message #465928 is a reply to message #465910]

Thu, 22 December 2005 15:27

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: simon.ou.edu

Hi Fred...

As previously said, go to the SWT documentation page. However, I did
find the book "SWT: A Developer's Notebook" by Tim Hatton very helpful.
You can get a brief 'how-to' here, and then go to the other
documentation sources for more details.

Regards...

Miguel.

Frederic Conrotte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess it's a recurrent question but I've been looking in the forum archive or on mailing lists like eclipse.newcomers but didn't find anything interesting on the subject.
>
> What's your recommandation for a beginner wanting to learn SWT and JFace ?
>
> I found this book :
> "SWT/JFace in Action : GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0"
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932394273
>
> or also this one :
> "The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFACE"
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593251
>
> Which one is worth the money ? Or maybe you know some others ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Fred

Re: Bests SWT/JFace Books for Beginners [message #466317 is a reply to message #465928]

Fri, 06 January 2006 08:47

Eclipse User

A good starting point to get a conceptual overview is the 3-part
tutorial here:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Des ign-1.html

A good book about SWT is "SWT: The standard widget Toolkit" by Steve
Northover and Mike Wilson. It doesn't cover JFACE however.

Yves

> Hi Fred...
>
> As previously said, go to the SWT documentation page. However, I did
> find the book "SWT: A Developer's Notebook" by Tim Hatton very helpful.
> You can get a brief 'how-to' here, and then go to the other
> documentation sources for more details.
>
> Regards...
>
> Miguel.
>
>
>
> Frederic Conrotte wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I guess it's a recurrent question but I've been looking in the forum
>> archive or on mailing lists like eclipse.newcomers but didn't find
>> anything interesting on the subject.
>>
>> What's your recommandation for a beginner wanting to learn SWT and
>> JFace ?
>>
>> I found this book :
>> "SWT/JFace in Action : GUI Design with Eclipse 3.0"
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1932394273
>>
>> or also this one :
>> "The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFACE"
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590593251
>>
>> Which one is worth the money ? Or maybe you know some others ?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Fred

Re: Bests SWT/JFace Books for Beginners [message #466319 is a reply to message #466317]

Fri, 06 January 2006 09:01

Eclipse User

I'm currently reading "SWT/JFace in action" and I'm quiet satisfied with it for the moment but I'll try the one you mention also.

Thanks

Fred

Re: Bests SWT/JFace Books for Beginners [message #466350 is a reply to message #466319]

Sat, 07 January 2006 15:42

Eclipse User

The book:
The Definitive Guide to SWT and JFace by Robert Harris

is an excellent book both for beginers and reference

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