Question

I’m looking for a component that contains items which can be selected to show their client areas, to be used on an Eclipse RCP application.

SWT TabFolder and CTabFolder would be the first choices, but I want to try out some alternatives.

There’s SWT ExpandBar and I’ve read about Nebula Pshelf.

Can you tell me some other alternatives?

Answer 1

You could build your own alternative using a StackLayout and some control(s) to switch between the different “panels.” Here’s a simple example SWT Snippet.

If you wanted to build an Eclipse Forms UI, you could use ExpandableComposite. See:

• http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Forms/article.html – about half-way down it talks about ExpandableComposite.
• http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseForms/article.html
• Eclipse RCP – good Eclipse Forms tutorial/resource