Re: SWT without Eclipse?

On Mar 29, 9:59 pm, Lionel van den Berg <lione...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
roboti...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Is it possible to program in SWT without using Eclipse? Can I just use
the command line java and javac?

As Andrew said, it is possible. I programmed SWT in Netbeans. I came
across a few problems along the way but most of the answers you will
find on the Eclipse sight.

Lionel.


OK, I hunted around, and from here and from there I seem to have found
the answer.

First, the zip file with the Java and native libraries can be
donwloaded from: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

I downloaded, and unzipped.

Given that I had the extracted binaries in the directory swt-
M20070112-1330-gtk-linux-x86, I compile and run with the following
commands:

javac -classpath "swt-M20070212-1330-gtk-linux-x86/swt.jar:."
TestSWT.java
java -classpath "swt-M20070212-1330-gtk-linux-x86/swt.jar:." -
Djava.library.path=swt-M20070212-1330-gtk-linux-x86 TestSWT

and I get a "hello world" GUI window appear on my screen. Job done.
Maybe.

.

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