JFace Application Window 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.

By default, the wizard will generate a template using a standard SWT ToolBar. Under Eclipse 3.0 and higher, the wizard  presents two templates - one using a ToolBar and one with a CoolBar.

The menubar is composed of MenuManagers and JFace Actions, and the toolbar is composed of ToolBarManagers and JFace Actions. A special JFace Actions palette is provided to manage this.

The wizard generates the following code including a main() method (when the ToolBar template is selected).

import org.eclipse.jface.action.MenuManager;

import org.eclipse.jface.action.StatusLineManager;

import org.eclipse.jface.action.ToolBarManager;

import org.eclipse.jface.window.ApplicationWindow;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;

import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Point;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

 

public class JFaceApplicationWindow extends ApplicationWindow {

    public JFaceApplicationWindow() {

        super(null);

        createActions();

        addToolBar(SWT.NONE);

        addMenuBar();

        addStatusLine();

    }

    protected Control createContents(Composite parent) {

        Composite container = new Composite(parent, SWT.NONE);

        return container;

    }

    private void createActions() {

    }

    protected MenuManager createMenuManager() {

        MenuManager result = new MenuManager("menu");

        return result;

    }

    protected ToolBarManager createToolBarManager(int arg) {

        ToolBarManager toolBarManager = 

            new ToolBarManager(SWT.FLAT | SWT.WRAP);

        return toolBarManager;

    }

    protected StatusLineManager createStatusLineManager() {

        StatusLineManager statusLineManager = new StatusLineManager();

        statusLineManager.setMessage(null, "");

        return statusLineManager;

    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        try {

            JFaceAppWindowTest window = new JFaceAppWindowTest();

            window.setBlockOnOpen(true);

            window.open();

        } catch (Exception e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

    }

    protected void configureShell(Shell newShell) {

        super.configureShell(newShell);

        newShell.setText("New Application");

    }

    protected Point getInitialSize() {

        return new Point(500, 375);

    }

}

Menus & ToolBars

JFace ApplicationWindows manage their menubars and toolbars automatically. They do not support adding normal menubars from the palette. Instead, when editing JFace ApplicationWindows, the tool adds an additional palette category, JFace Actions, that can be used to create new actions or add existing actions to the window's toolbar or menubar. Newly created actions are added to the palette automatically.