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SWT GTK Development Articles

Getting Started/Beginner Guide

• Comprehensive SWT development guide

GTK Compilation

• Compiling various versions of GTK
• JHBuild : Compile newest GTK+ versions and it's dependencies with with jhbuild
• Defining a version specific GTK macro to prevent compilation errors
• Using locally compiled GTK libraries with native GTK snippets

SWT JNI Compilation and os custom development

• Eliminating "sentinel" warnings on SWT JNI compilation
• os custom development (swt fixed container written in C)

CSS

• Avoid "expected valid selector" warnings in console output
• Getting started with GTK CSS guide

Debugging

• Getting more information from a jvm crash

Wayland Development

• Getting started with Wayland development

Accessibility

• ATK Introduction

Equinox Launcher

• For Equinox Launcher development (GTK part), see : Equinox

Coding

• Prototyping GTK snippets via Program Interface (PI) Snippets

Testing

• SWT JUnit tests
• Platform (jFace) Tests for SWT developers

Uploading Your Patch

• Patch submission guidelines

Miscellaneous

• Finding which version of GTK your Eclipse runs on
• Enabling icons in menus, buttons, and more in GNOME3
• Determining what version of GTK shipped with Fedora
• GNOME documentation on changes from GTK2 to GTK3
• SWT JUnit tests
• How to fix massive import errors after repository reset
• Fix "missing gtk-*.so" file errors when launching a child Eclipse
• JFace development

See also Eclipse Wiki Pages

These are pages mostly for special interest.

• Useful tools/shortcuts within Eclipse to make SWT development easier Useful Eclipse Shortcuts

See Also External

• SWT tagged posts on Leo's blog: CoffeeOrientedProgramming.com
• Legacy SWT Guide: Leo Ufimtsev's legacy SWT guide
• How to update Eclipse to Rawhide (Alpha versions of Eclipse on Fedora). Eclipse to Rawhide
• Introduction to bash scripting Bash for Beginners Guide