GroovySWT

I am making another implementaion of GroovySwt. It has some features mentioned below.

• Instead of creating Factory classes source codes manually , I maked factory
  creating program and the program makes all factory's source code .
                
• Construction arguments are passed as last parameter. For example ,
      
       button(text:"hello world" , background:[100 , 100, 100] , SWT.PUSH)
       
  this code is same as below.
      
       Button btn = new Button(parent , SWT.PUSH) ;
       btn.setText("hello world") ;
       btn.setBackground(new Color(btn.getDisplay() , 100 , 100 , 100)) ; 
       
  ( note: The Color resource is managed automatically . )
  If Construction arguments' length is longer than 1 , just wrap those in list.
      
       tabItem(text:"hello world" , [SWT.NONE , 1])
              
•  You can define interfaces(includes event handlers) inline , or use your 
   custom implementation classes.
     
      button( SWT.PUSH ) {
           selectionListener(
               widgetSelected:{ println "hello world"   /* define inline */ }
           )
      }
     
      // custom implementation of SelectionListener
      CustomSelectionListener listener = new CustomSelectionListener() ;
     
      button( SWT.PUSH ) {
          selectionListener(listener)    // use custom class
      }
           
•  You can assign your custom tag name to existing class.  For example , 
   you can use 'BUTTON' to use org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button . This mapping
   is configured by configuration file at runtime .
   (note : The default mapping (class name) is always usable.)
      

My Implementation is not perfect currently , but it works fine.
I want to contribute my works , is It possible ?

Yes, if you have some useful code to contribute, that would be great.

Hello,
I get SWT.zip, but i don't know how to install . I've read some webs, but i haven't found nothing about this.

Could someone help me about this? Im working on Windows XP. I've installed Groovy and Eclipse.

Thanks!

The link for groovy-swt-0.3-including-Eclipse-libs.ZIP is broken. Can someone fix it?

The link for groovy-swt-0.3-including-Eclipse-libs.ZIP should now be working again.

Frank 

I found that this jar could not work on 64-bit JVM. When I run the demos, it throws exception like this:Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Cannot load 32-bit SWT libraries on 64-bit JVM.

Any solution?

oh boy had a little fun getting this all to work

not sure how recently the project has been updated - but i appear at last to have a working build that generates for eclipse juno .

steps: sourced the code tree from the svn directory - took a while to figure out how to do that - you have to register an id with xircles for codehaus and then you can get into the svn pages of the groovy link above.

I stored igt all in a zip - then did an import from zip into my exclipse juno v4 workspace.   Prject loads but lights up like a christmas tree with complie errors - fear not this is what you have to do (entire afternoon explore here )

1.  you have to get the juno SWT jar first.. This site helps you do that swt download link pages for swt
2. same trick - save the zip, import into your workspace.  the project so loaded has a working swt.jar file you can use elsewhere in your projects.
3. if you want jface - more work this is really nasty from eclipse - you have a download a copy of eclipse 4.2 for RCP- which has all the extra jar files in its plugin directory.   heres the eclipse download link i used today juno rcp enabled build (dec 2012).  save this and unzip in a temp directory.  you need a bunch of jars from here.
4. go back to your first groovy swt project you loaded into the workspace - what i did was add a 'lib' directory to the file tree and then stuffed a bunch of jars in there and include them in your build path.  two apache logging files - had to go to apache to get those and copy them into the lib directory  - the rest are from the RCP build  plugin directory above
   

in addition i had to use jindjar .com to locate copies of miglayout, and the icu4j jar, and junit-4.5

5 once you have that lot include them all in the build path by adding all the jars in your lib directory.

you still get some errors and wanrings i had to edit some of the groovy files - as some of the classes in src/samples had private classes declared - my complier im using grails 2.1.1 inside GGTS with java 6 didnt like that - so i commented out any private classififers and ran a project /clean.  I think that got it all to compile - howeever when i ran another project i got errors about class versions. 

last thing to do is use latest java vm 7 and set sdk runtime in your project and the workbench to be the same - then it all seemed to start working.

once its all compiled up with no errors - you can build another project in groovy or grails and reference your working build project (havnt figured out how to export working groovy_swt into standalone jar yet.  but thats good enough for now.

hopefully thats enough to get any one else started  - but i think a refresh on the groovy modules svn build is probably required - those private classes really didnt work for me.

Hope that helps anyone who comes after me - and save you a days toil and heartache.  Might have a moan to eclipse about getting the RCP jars in a more readily installable package - theres no update site i can see just to get these into a standard juno build - my GGTS didnt include them for sure

i've downloaded and made a couple of improvements i think that permit you to incrementally build parts and join them together at the end - see above

in doing so i've created a draft tutorial for swt and jface builder that shows how they can be used

i've posted a copy here in case any one would else would benefit from it whilst i build it out a little more its currently as draft 0.1

Wills Groovy SWT tutorial.docx