Setting Colors in SWT

java swt colors
Brian Gianforcaro picture Brian Gianforcaro · Sep 8, 2008 · Viewed 76.4k times · Source

This is pretty simple, I come from a swing/awt background.

I'm just wondering what the proper way to set the background color for a SWT widget is?

I've been trying:

widget.setBackground( );

Except I have no idea how to create the color Object in SWT?

Answer

qualidafial picture qualidafial · Sep 16, 2008

For standard colors (including common colors and default colors used by the operating system) Use Display.getSystemColor(int), and pass in the SWT.COLOR_* constant for the color you want.

Display display = Display.getCurrent();
Color blue = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLUE);
Color listBackground = display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_LIST_BACKGROUND);

Note that you do not need to dispose these colors because SWT created them.

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