SWT – the Standard Widget Toolkit
SWT is the widget toolkit used by Eclipse that gives performant access to the platform's native tools in a portable manner. Unlike Swing, which is rendered with Java native drawing operations, SWT delegates the drawing to the underlying operating system.
In this chapter we will:
Create an Eclipse view with SWT widgets
Create a custom SWT widget
Work with SWT resources and learn how to detect and fix resource leaks
Handle focus operations
Group components and resize them automatically
Create system tray items
Display nonrectangular windows
Provide scrolling and tabbed navigation