Using Eclipse to build GUIs

[TrevorBoydSmith]

If I use the org.eclipse.swt.* libraries to make my GUIs will the user
need to download and have additional libraries installed on his machine
other than the Java Runtime Environment??

-Trevor

 

[Oliver Wong]

If I use the org.eclipse.swt.* libraries to make my GUIs will the user
need to download and have additional libraries installed on his machine
other than the Java Runtime Environment??

Yes.

Namely, the SWT libraries.

- Oliver

 

[TrevorBoydSmith]

When I say user. I mean to say that I will compile and release my java
app. My customer that will use the finished/compiled app will only
have the Java Runtime Environment. You are saying that the customer
will need the SWT libraries in addition to the Java Runtime
Environment, correct?

 

[TrevorBoydSmith]

When I say user. I mean to say that I will compile and release my java
app. My customer that will use the finished/compiled app will only
have the Java Runtime Environment. You are saying that the customer
will need the SWT libraries in addition to the Java Runtime
Environment, correct?

 

[Oliver Wong]

When I say user. I mean to say that I will compile and release my java
app. My customer that will use the finished/compiled app will only
have the Java Runtime Environment. You are saying that the customer
will need the SWT libraries in addition to the Java Runtime
Environment, correct?

That's correct. You could bundle the SWT libraries with your app when
you release it.

- Oliver

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

If I use the org.eclipse.swt.* libraries to make my GUIs will the user
need to download and have additional libraries installed on his machine
other than the Java Runtime Environment??

The SWT libraries *for their particular platform*. That's one of the
evils with SWT.

/Thomas

 

[Andrew Thompson]

The SWT libraries *for their particular platform*. That's one of the
evils with SWT.

JWS can install libraries dependant upon platform.

The JOGL JNLP's use that to ensure the correct
native DLL's (or other things, as appropriate) get
delivered.

Andrew T.

 

[Thomas Weidenfeller]

JWS can install libraries dependant upon platform.

The JOGL JNLP's use that to ensure the correct
native DLL's (or other things, as appropriate) get
delivered.

Which means someone (the OP) has to put in extra effort to create the
JNLP with all possible platform libraries. Still evil.

/Thomas

 

[Dirk Michaelsen]

The SWT libraries *for their particular platform*. That's one of the
evils with SWT.

no that's the benefit of SWT because you have the native look for each
platform.

cu
Dirk

 

[Oliver Wong]

no that's the benefit of SWT because you have the native look for each
platform.

While native look and feel for each platform might be a benefit, a
different library for every platform is NOT a benefit, IMHO.

In other words, like everything else in life, SWT has its pros and cons.

- Oliver