So your test code would look something like this…

public class SWTBotImageHyperlinkTest extends AbstractSWTBotFormsTestCase {
 
	@Test
	public void findImageHyperlink() throws Exception {
                FormView view = new FormView(shell);
                SWTFormsBot = new SWTFormsBot();
		SWTBotImageHyperlink link = 
                     bot.imageHyperlink("Image link with no image");
		assertNotNull(link);
		assertEquals("Image link with no image", link.getText());
	}
 
}

We’re looking to eventually integrate this into SWTBot proper, just pay attention to this bug if you’re interested.

Enjoy.

STW – SWT Transition Widget

It’s a widget that enables transition effects in SWT… see for yourself…

I think the project is a good candidate for Nebula if anyone wants to reach out to them.

Nebula – AeroToolBar

It looks like the Nebula project will be getting a donated widget that resembles the Vista toolbar.

SWT UI Mockups

I generally find user interface wireframing tools very lackluster. However, taking an existing piece of live user interface…

And painlessly turning it into a mockup…

Very cool!

Anyone see anything else good lately?

SWTObservables.observeDelayedValue(400, myObservable)

There’s also a nice code snippet that you can run to see how the code works.

My first impression was like… oh no, what a newbie I am… I forgot about the carbon and 64-bit JVM issue. The only funny thing I got out of it was a new word for my lexicon to describe my situation: ‘carb0wn3d’ (credit to Kevin Barnes of the SWT team ;p).

However, never fear, there are good ways to deal with this issue for now. At least in my case, I have cases where I need to do development and test on multiple platforms anyway. VMWare Fusion allows me to do this very well and it even integrates well into my desktop:

Cool huh? Easy multi-platform testing for me now

Anyone have better suggestions besides waiting or hacking on the SWT Cocoa port

In the process of doing this, I was dealing with images obtained from google’s GTalk server and they were coming back in crazy shapes and sizes. I thought to myself, it can’t be that hard to resize images, lo’ and behold… it really isn’t… here’s a code snippet to do it (may not be the best way, but it works):


private Image resize(Image image, int width, int height) {
Image scaled = new Image(Display.getDefault(), width, height);
GC gc = new GC(scaled);
gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON);
gc.setInterpolation(SWT.HIGH);
gc.drawImage(image, 0, 0,
image.getBounds().width, image.getBounds().height,
0, 0, width, height);
gc.dispose();
image.dispose(); // don't forget about me!
return scaled;
}

Now all I need to figure out is how to make those new fancy custom tooltips even better. I have a usecase where I want a user to click that tooltip, if so, leave the tooltip open and allow the user to click possible hyperlinks and close it manually later on. The reason I want to do this is because I want to allow people like the Mylyn folks maybe to plug something in where they could have a hyperlink to show relevant tasks on a user.