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How to use SWING component in RCP [message #544213]

Thu, 01 July 2010 23:22

Eclipse User

I am wandering which is the best way to integrate swing components inside an RCP.
What I need to do for instance, is to show in a view a dynamic graph created from a stream of values using a swing library like JChart2D.
For that I need to instantiate a swing container in my view at least.
Which is the best solution to this problem?

As an alternative, I wander if there is a library like JChart2D for SWT.

Thank you.

Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #544231 is a reply to message #544213]

Fri, 02 July 2010 01:51

Eclipse User

On 02.07.2010 05:22, Alessandro Caproni wrote:
> I am wandering which is the best way to integrate swing components
> inside an RCP.
> What I need to do for instance, is to show in a view a dynamic graph
> created from a stream of values using a swing library like JChart2D. For
> that I need to instantiate a swing container in my view at least.
> Which is the best solution to this problem?

You might want to start with the SWT_AWT bridge, see also the article

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Swi ng-SWT-Integration/index.html

In more advanced use-cases it is generally recommended to use
the Albireo bridge:

http://www.eclipse.org/albireo/

You may also have a look at

http://swik.net/swt/AWT,+Swing+and+Java2D+Integration

> As an alternative, I wander if there is a library like JChart2D for SWT.
> Thank you.

We have quite good experience with JFreeChart

http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/

but I don't know whether this covers your requirements. It might also
be worth to use the charts support provided by the Birt project, see e.g.

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-BIR TChartEngine/index.html

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #544398 is a reply to message #544213]

Fri, 02 July 2010 10:46

Eclipse User

Thank for your help Daniel.
I will investigate the usage of the SWT_AWT bridge and albireo.

I knew about JFreeChart that is probably the most widely used chart library in java. After a short investigation we preferred JChart2D because it is lighter when managing a large stream of values in real time.

I have just found SWTChart that could be used avoiding the need of embedding AWT/SWING into SWT. It could be worst to givi it a shot.

Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #645866 is a reply to message #544398]

Mon, 20 December 2010 15:56

Eclipse User

I see that your topic is very similar to my problem and thought maybe you could help out.
I have a swing form I created in netbeans and would like to port it to an eclipse plugin. Is there any way to create a container to hold it as is?
Thanks

Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #648802 is a reply to message #645866]

Fri, 14 January 2011 09:43

Eclipse User

On 2010-12-20 21:56, avner_barr@yahoo.com wrote:
> I see that your topic is very similar to my problem and thought maybe
> you could help out.
> I have a swing form I created in netbeans and would like to port it to
> an eclipse plugin. Is there any way to create a container to hold it as is?
> Thanks

I recommend to google for the Albireo project which provides an
excellent SWT control wrapper for Swing classes.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #651621 is a reply to message #648802]

Mon, 31 January 2011 17:41

Eclipse User

Now that Eclipse has abandoned the Albireo project are there any updated recommendations? What should projects which foolishly depended on this code migrate to?

Tom

Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #651735 is a reply to message #651621]

Tue, 01 February 2011 08:02

Eclipse User

On 01/31/2011 05:41 PM, Tom Morris wrote:
> Now that Eclipse has abandoned the Albireo project are there any updated
> recommendations? What should projects which foolishly depended on this
> code migrate to?

If you don't need new functionality, then you're probably fine. But you
have full access to the code from that project if you only need to tweak
it. If you need more than that, you would probably go back to the
SWT_AWT bridge.

PW

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Re: How to use SWING component in RCP [message #727363 is a reply to message #544398]

Wed, 21 September 2011 01:18

Eclipse User

Hello Caproni

we are also planning to use jchart2d for run time charting.
Were you able to use it successfully? if so which one you used SWT_AWT bridge or albireo?

Please do share your experience on jchart2d and on bridges, sure it will save a lot of time for me

regards
Raghu

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