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Eclipse SWT Designer Plugin provides visual building of SWT GUI.

Eclipse SWT Designer Plugin
Version 0.0.1
http://eclipsedesigner.sourceforge.net

Copyright (c) 2003 Konstantin Scheglov, [e-mail]
All Rights Reserved
Licensed under the CPL License version 1.0
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This is an Eclipse Java IDE plugin providing visual SWT GUI building.
Currently it is very limited and published only for review.

Limitations
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  Designer is on very early stage. Don't expect, that I will publish any
version before at least 1 Jul 2003. And of course any assistance gratefully
received. I keep all sources in sourceforge CVS.
  Another limitation is that to receive good look, I use small native code,
which can make screenshots, so you always see real images of controls, not
"fakes". This topic was many times discussed in forum, I found solution for
Windows, for other platforms, other solutions are needed.


Bugs
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  Don't report bugs for this version.
  But feel free request features with good description.


Installation
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- Shutdown Eclipse.
- Unzip the contents of the zip file into the plugins directory of your 
  Eclipse directory.  
- Copy file designer_jdt.jar in plugin org.eclipse.jdt.core_2.1.0 (JDT-Core plugin).
  Add following text in file in JDT-Core plugin plugin.xml in <runtime>:
  <library name="designer_jdt.jar">
     <export name="*"/>
  </library> 
- Restart Eclipse.
- Create Java project with SWT library.
- Add file "Application1.java " from plugin "sample" directory in project.
  Fix bugs related with class/package name.
- Open file using "SWT Designer Multi-page Editor".
- Select page "Design".
- Select method "main". After this you should see image shell and several
  widgets on it.
- Remember, that this is only test version.
- Play with property editor.


[+] Feature added.
[-] Bug fixed.
[*] Change.


22 May 2003 - Version 0.0.1
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- First version.