Re: [Swingwt-developers] Re: Problem in using swingwt.

[Robin Rawson-T. <bob...@us...>]

> I am looking at SwingWT for use with an existing Swing app that I want to=
 port to Eclipse.  All of my JPanels would become Eclipse editors or views =
(i.e. plugins), so I'm very interested in this process.  I tried to do a sa=
mple plugin view using your code (below), but it didn't work for me. Nothin=
g shows up in the view at all!  (I have the same problem with my app's JPan=
els.)  Oddly, if I remove the BorderLayout and just add the JLabel using th=
e default layout manager, the JLabel shows up -- or at least part of it unt=
il I resize the viewer.

Which would imply that absolute positioning is working. Try getting the
container's layout manager to fire by calling container.invalidate() to
see if that helps.

Unfortunately, (as I say), I don't use Eclipse so I don't know. SwingWT
usually forces an invalidate on container creation and then watches for
resize events on the container to know when to layout the container
again. Perhaps Eclipse is getting in the way of this mechanism?

> You have to make an external plugin for SwingWT and make it a dependency =
of your plugin.  To make it an external plugin, just make a file name plugi=
n.xml with the following content:

Thanks for the tip - very useful!

Hopefully, someone else on the list knows more.

Cheers,

Rob

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