JFace examples in Eclipse like SWT Examples?

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Grigory picture Grigory · Dec 27, 2009 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

Are there any all-in-one JFace controls example out there like the SWT Examples in Eclipse? Searching (googling and searching here on stackoverflow.com) did not help me.

It would be nice if it was a standalone app or an eclipse plugin.

Thank you.

Answer

VonC picture VonC · Dec 27, 2009

Aside from the SWT JFace examples and introduction courses, you have some projects based on JFace controls:

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Nebula is a place where different Eclipse-Projects and Independent developers collaborate on building Custom SWT widgets and reuseable UI-Components useable in UI-Applications built using SWT and JFace.

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The framework tries to hide some of the complexity of developing forms from you; as with all frameworks there might be points in time where it just does not work and you have to dig deeper into the secrets of SWT, JFace, UI Forms or Databinding

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