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robotiser@googlemail.com - 29 Mar 2007 11:55 GMT

Is it possible to program in SWT without using Eclipse? Can I just use
the command line java and javac?

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Andrew Thompson - 29 Mar 2007 12:58 GMT

On Mar 29, 8:55 pm, "roboti...@googlemail.com"
<roboti...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to program in SWT without using Eclipse?

Yes (I am not that familiar with SWT, but
as a general rule, it is sure possible).

>..Can I just use the command line java and javac?

I don't know. Can you? ;-)

To compile/run SWT based projects in other
environments, simply ensure the SWT classes
are on the classpath.

Andrew T.

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Lionel van den Berg - 29 Mar 2007 21:59 GMT

> 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.

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robotiser@googlemail.com - 30 Mar 2007 10:29 GMT

> roboti...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > Is it possible to program in SWT without using Eclipse? Can I just use
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> 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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