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| <H1>The Standard Widget Toolkit</H1> |
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| <P>The Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT) is a widget toolkit for Java developers |
| that provides a portable API and tight integration with the underlying native |
| OS GUI platform.</P> |
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| <P>Many low level UI programming tasks are handled in higher layers of the |
| Eclipse platform. For example, JFace viewers and actions provide |
| implementations for the common interactions between applications and widgets. |
| However, knowledge of SWT is important for understanding how the rest of the |
| platform works.</P> |
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| <h2>Portability and platform integration</h2> |
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| <P>SWT defines a common portable API that is provided on all supported |
| platforms, and implements the API on each platform using native widgets |
| wherever possible. This allows the toolkit to immediately reflect any |
| changes in the underlying OS GUI look and feel while maintaining a consistent |
| programming model on all platforms.</P> |
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