custom swt widgets, a list...(zz)
Everybody knows that the basic native widgets in swt lack a lot of flexibility and features. An approach to solve these shortcomings is to build custom swt widgets that do not rely on native widgets but are custom drawn - the same approach that swing took. A good example is KTable. The custom swt widgets - custom drawn and aggergated native ones - I currently know of are:
- swtplus: http://swtplus.textdriven.com/
- PGroup: an expandable group widget
- PLink: an image hyperlink widget
- Jaret: http://www.jaret.de/index.html
- timebars: a widget showing intervals in a Gantt chart. The widget implementation is combined for JFC/Swing and the SWT toolkit. Learn more about the timebar widget and it's features here. LICENSE: GPL (commercial license available)
- table: custom drawn table widget for the SWT toolkit.
- datechooser: a widget for selecting dates in a classical drop down style featuring the display of holidays and other special days. Learn more
- novocode: http://www.novocode.com/swt/
- CustomSeparator: Instances of this class are non-native separator lines.
- FramedComposite: Instances of this class are composites with a border around the contents.
- Hyperlink: A hyperlink text label.
- LiveSashForm: Like a regular SashForm, the LiveSashForm lays out its children in a Row or Column
- SizeGrip: A non-native size grip which looks (and almost feels) like the native Win32 size grip.
- Ktable: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ktable
- KTable is a custom SWT table widget that provides a flexible grid of cells to display data. Since it is custom-drawn, it does not have the restrictions of the native SWT Table control.
- Gface: http://gface.sourceforge.net/
- Search Box - Searchable drop-down list
- Date Picker - UI widget for visually picking a day in a month.
- Date Combo - Combo box that opens the date picker to select date
- Hour Selection Combo - CCombo to select hour in a day
- SWT Dock: http://tweetypie.doc.ic.ac.uk/~jr200/twiki/bin/view/SWTDock/WebHome
- Eclipse Docking API (2.1) ported back to Java from .NET.