SWT Shell Wizard

Subclasses of the SWT Shell class can be created using the SWT Shell wizard. The wizard can be selected from the drop down wizard menu or from the Eclipse New wizard.

To use the wizard, select the project source folder and package to contain the class. Then enter the class name and hit the Finish button.

The org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell class is the default superclass.

The wizard generates the following code including a main() method.

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

public class SwtShell extends Shell {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		try {
			Display display = Display.getDefault();
			SwtShell shell = new SwtShell(display, SWT.SHELL_TRIM);
			shell.open();
			shell.layout();
			while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
				if (!display.readAndDispatch()) {
					display.sleep();
				}
			}
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public SwtShell(Display display, int style) {
		super(display, style);
		createContents();
	}

	protected void createContents() {
		setText("SWT Application");
		setSize(450, 300);
	}

	protected void checkSubclass() {
		// Disable the check that prevents subclassing of SWT components
	}
}

When editing SWT Shells, all of the standard SWT layouts, containers, widgets and menus are available. Custom or third party controls may be added via the Choose Component command.