The Albireo project builds on the SWT_AWT bridge to provide more complete Swing/SWT integration, resulting in a better "out-of-the-box" experience and more credibility for the entire notion of Swing/SWT integration.
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Eclipse - Opening editor programmatically causes focus problems
I'm having a bit of an issue with an eclipse plugin that I am working on. In this plugin, a special type of plugin-specific editor is often opened programmatically; this is triggered by various actions in various views/editors, but the code to open…
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SWT/AWT integration: alternatives to or further development of Albireo
There is quite a lot of manual work needed to improve SWT/Swing integration when using SWT_AWT bridge. Albireo project was intended to fix this, but it's now archived. Is there any alternative? Or is it developed further unofficially?
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Showing SWT modal dialog from AWT/Swing
Using Albireo, it's easy to see how to show a Swing dialog from SWT:
private AwtEnvironment awtEnv = AwtEnvironment.getInstance(Display.getCurrent);
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// call from SWT thread
void showSwingMessageDialog(String msg) {
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