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Custom Look and Feel in SWT [message #447625]

Wed, 15 December 2004 13:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: mansoor.hadeedian.net

Hi All,

Any idea or example on implementing Custom Look and Feel on SWT. Similar to the
LnF in Swing or Skinnable Buttons ???

Thanks
Mansoor

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Re: Custom Look and Feel in SWT [message #447634 is a reply to message #447625]

Wed, 15 December 2004 16:18

Steve Northover

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You don't. The look and feel is dictated by the operating system.

"Muhammad Mansoor" <mansoor@hadeedian.net> wrote in message
news:cppddp$ipj$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hi All,
>
> Any idea or example on implementing Custom Look and Feel on SWT. Similar
to the
> LnF in Swing or Skinnable Buttons ???
>
>
> Thanks
> Mansoor

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Re: Custom Look and Feel in SWT [message #447749 is a reply to message #447625]

Fri, 17 December 2004 03:30

Daniel Spiewak

Messages: 263
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
A possible solution would be to write an API that
sits on top of SWT and dynamically chooses whether to use the native
widgets (through SWT) or use emulated widgets (which would ultimately
extend Canvas in the SWT API).  However, since the point of SWT is to
achieve a perfectly native LAF, I really don't see why you would
attempt to tack emulation on top of it. 
 
Daniel 
 
Muhammad Mansoor wrote:
<blockquote cite="midcppddp$ipj$1@www.eclipse.org" type="cite">Hi All,
 
 
Any idea or example on implementing Custom Look and Feel on SWT.
Similar to the LnF in Swing or Skinnable Buttons ???
 
 
 
Thanks
 
Mansoor
 
</blockquote>
</body>
</html>

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