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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783980697
Length 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Creating Your First Plug-in 2. Creating Views with SWT FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating JFace Viewers 4. Interacting with the User 5. Working with Preferences 6. Working with Resources 7. Creating Eclipse 4 Applications 8. Migrating to Eclipse 4.x 9. Styling Eclipse 4 Applications 10. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products 11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins 12. Automated Builds with Tycho 13. Contributing to Eclipse A. Using OSGi Services to Dynamically Wire Applications B. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – configuring the SWT project

There are a couple of extra steps that are specifically required in order to work with SWT. The first is setting up the main SWT project for the specific operating system, and the second is obtaining the pre-compiled native libraries that are required in order to communicate with the operating system.

  1. Firstly, the project's platform-specific .classpath needs to be copied (or symlinked) so that the project compiles. Since SWT has a number of platform-specific elements, they need to be referred to in the classpath. In the root of the org.eclipse.swt project, there are three files: .classpath_cocoa (for macOS), .classpath_gtk (for Linux), and .classpath_win32 (for Windows). Copy or symlink the appropriate one to .classpath in order to compile the project.

    Tip

    On Windows, Explorer may not be able to display or rename files that start with a dot character. Use either the command prompt and rename or copy commands, or use Eclipse's Navigator...

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