Pumped about SWT..

Just curious, anyone doing any SWT these days (the native-ish widget set that comes with Eclipse)?

I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not really the speed that bugs me about Swing, or that fact that the API is so mammoth, or the fact that GridBayLayout is ridiculously complex to deal with for someone who doesn’t do GUIs all that often (like me). To be honest, I can write that off to not being smart enough, and I can live with all that.

But I’ve tracked down what I really don’t like about it. It’s the fact that it’s just plain ugly.

I’ve been playing with Apache JMeter to do some web scalability testing on my MightyBlog app (JMeter is one flippin cool tool BTW), but the GUI is just ugly. Any it’s not the layout, which is just fine. It’s the widgets themselves! What is the go with Tree widget?

Anyways, so I’m going to have a play with SWT and see what I can come up with for the little spam filtering app I’m working on. Apparently they’ve even ported it to PocketPC, so I can deploy native-looking J2ME apps to the Ipaq. How cool would that be?

So, anyone done any SWT? I’m keen for others experiences, since the doco is pretty light on. Matt pointed me to the Online doco that comes with Eclipse, which actually looks really good, and I’ve CVS’ed the example tree from dev.eclipse.org, so that should be more than enough to get started.

Very pumped.