I’m creating a plugin project that will have a menu and toolbar item, that when clicked, will open a dialog for user interaction (input, searching, etc.). Should I create the dialog using SWT or Swing?
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I’m creating a plugin project that will have a menu and toolbar item, that when clicked, will open a dialog for user interaction (input, searching, etc.). Should I create the dialog using SWT or Swing?
One advantage of doing it in Swing is that you don’t have to supply any other libraries, because Swing is part of JRE. With SWT you have to do it and you have to have separate dlls for specific platforms.
UPDATE:
Since you mentioned that you have to create Eclipse plugin, I think you have a clear choice here – SWT. It is what Eclipse is based on.