We've all seen this in numerous applications: checking a node in a checkbox tree widget selects all descendants and grays out all ancestors. Similarly, unchecking a node recursively executes the same logic in reverse.
2 replies - 1431 views - 12/22/11 by Zac Wolfe in Tips and Tricks
The Eclipse developers just released the first Eclipse 3.6 milestone of the new year and they are on track for a final release in June. Eclipse 3.6 (codename: Helios) has reached milestone 5, which features new command line options, dynamic path variables,...
0 replies - 11496 views - 02/01/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
For the past year Pentaho has been developing a UI framework based on XUL for writing apps that run in Swing, SWT and GWT without code modification. It's been open source from the start (LGPLv2) but not advertised. We've recently moved the project out into...
0 replies - 1279 views - 05/23/09 by Nick Baker in Announcements
As the author of the Swing JavaBuilder library, I'd like to present to you a simple tutorial that explains what it can do for you and how it can maximize Swing development productivity.Since coding Swing by hand is extremely cumbersome, most developers have...
12 replies - 25515 views - 03/31/09 by Jacek Furmankiewicz in Articles
Swing has made pretty good progress to look native, nevertheless there is one thing that definitely does not feel native: file and directory dialogs. There are several problems with Swing's file or directory dialog. It is not possible to select multiple files...
49 replies - 13847 views - 03/30/09 by Christopher Deckers in News
DJ Native Swing allows to easily integrate some native components into Swing applications, and provides some native utilities to enhance Swing's APIs.
15 replies - 4841 views - 03/25/09 by Christopher Deckers in Announcements
MiG Layout is the most versatile Java Layout Manager for Swing and SWT. It is very simple to use and has lots of documentation. Since MiG Layout is 100% free under the corporation friendly BSD license you can use and abuse it as much as you like, no matter if...
9 replies - 7787 views - 12/17/08 by Mikael Grev in Announcements
DJ Sweet provides a sophisticated component suite for SWT.
4 replies - 6651 views - 12/10/08 by Christopher Deckers in Announcements
Including SWT Desktop Feature and Providing Pipe APIs for Comet Connection We are very pleased to announce that Java2Script 2.0.0 release is available now. Please visit http://j2s.sourceforge.net/ for updates.
Comparing to previous 1.0.0 version, 2.0.0...
2 replies - 3479 views - 12/08/08 by Zhou Renjian in Announcements
I am preparing a few talks about dynamic OSGi applications. To get my hands dirty I started a little demo project to showcase different scenarios. That SWT works very well with OSGi is obvious, since Eclipse RCP is based on OSGi. But there are not many Swing...
13 replies - 11811 views - 11/26/08 by Kai Tödter in Articles
ComfyJ is a Java-COM bridge enabling bidirectional communication between the Java platform and COM technologies.With
ComfyJ, you can use COM/OLE/OCX/ActiveX objects right from your Java
application and implement Java objects as COM...
0 replies - 3853 views - 11/05/08 by Igor Shvydkoy in Announcements
The latest 0.2.DEV release of the Java SwingBuilder introduces SWT-style API for creating menu items in the YAML file, thus allowing you to specify the text, mnemonic and accelerator all in one property:
0 replies - 4026 views - 07/19/08 by Jacek Furmankiewicz in Announcements
Glimmer is a JRuby DSL that enables easy and efficient authoring of user-interfaces using the robust platform-independent Eclipse SWT library. Glimmer comes with built-in data-binding support to greatly facilitate synchronizing UI with domain models. The...
0 replies - 37897 views - 06/19/08 by Andy Maleh in Articles
MiG Layout 3.5 is a Layout Manager for Swing and SWT that is very easy to use, yet extremely powerful when needed. It has a syntax that resembles CSS and replaces the functionality of all other layout managers, including FormLayout and TableLayout.Version 3.5...
6 replies - 6208 views - 04/28/08 by Mikael Grev in Announcements
Seems Microsoft is trying to show a kinder, gentler side to Open Source and Java development communities. In the past they made overtures to improve PHP on Windows server. They also sat down and collaborated with JBoss and now they plan on supporting...
12 replies - 14744 views - 03/21/08 by Rick Hightower in News
