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Bug 171019

Summary:	SWT designer plugin desperately needed
Product:	guibuilder	Reporter:	nickbeare <nickbeare>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	issues@guibuilder <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description nickbeare 2009-08-27 17:06:55 UTC

After using NetBeans for about 2 years, we are about to drop it in favour of eclipse because there is no SWT designer 
in NetBeans (Boss has decreed :-( ). We have a lot of historic applications (for toughbooks, PDA's, etc) which use the 
SWT framework. Whether SWT is a 'pure' way of going about things is irrelevant.

Comment 1 Jan Stola 2009-09-10 15:14:44 UTC

I don't think that we will ever support non-standard IBM-proprietary technology like SWT. But even if we will then it 
will have to be a completely different plug-in than current GUI builder that is based on Swing.