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Running Swing or AWT widgets within SWT. [message #531018]

Mon, 03 May 2010 12:08

Uri Shani

Messages: 18
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I have an AWT application, which uses a JFrame as top container. I want to hook this app to work from within an SWT Shell - like from a command or an editor.
I know how to get to the Shell of the editor view.
Perhaps I should hook the main Composite component of this JFrame?
Is this possible at all? What is the trick?

Thanks,
- Uri

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Re: Running Swing or AWT widgets within SWT. [message #531029 is a reply to message #531018]

Mon, 03 May 2010 12:17

Paul Webster

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Uri Shani wrote:
> I have an AWT application, which uses a JFrame as top container. I want
> to hook this app to work from within an SWT Shell - like from a command
> or an editor. I know how to get to the Shell of the editor view. Perhaps
> I should hook the main Composite component of this JFrame? Is this
> possible at all? What is the trick?

Check out the SWT_AWT bridge at http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/

you can embed your Swing/AWT components in a Composite, i.e. in a view
or in an editor.

It sounds like you need a heavy-weight component (AWT) as the root and
then add the lightweight components underneath. See
org.eclipse.swt.awt.SWT_AWT.new_Frame(Composite)

PW

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Re: Running Swing or AWT widgets within SWT. [message #531074 is a reply to message #531029]

Mon, 03 May 2010 15:44

Uri Shani

Messages: 18
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Many thanks.
I looked at Snippet135 and made out of it something simpler which only shows the Shell, but not the label inside - what is missing there?

package tests;

/*******************************************************************************
/*
 * example snippet: embed Swing/AWT in SWT
 *
 * For a list of all SWT example snippets see
 * http://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 */
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.awt.SWT_AWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

public class BridgeSnippet {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		final Display display = new Display();
		final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
		shell.setText("SWT and Swing/AWT Example");
		Composite composit = new Composite(shell, SWT.EMBEDDED);
		java.awt.Frame frame = SWT_AWT.new_Frame(composit);
		frame.setTitle("AWT Frame");
		java.awt.Label label = new java.awt.Label("Hello world");
		frame.add(label);
		
		composit.setVisible(true);
		shell.open();
		while(!shell.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep();
		}
		display.dispose();
	}
}

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