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SWT: A Developer's Notebook

Errata for SWT: A Developer's Notebook

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 20
In Example 2-3. Setting the shell styles

The line just below the class declaration reads:

ShellStyles() {

It should read:

ShellStylesExample() {

otherwise the class has no constructor and nothing will happen.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 29
Setting the Shell Icon, line 3

...icon on the right side of the titlebar.
should be:
...icon on the left side of the titlebar.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 71
the section just above figure 4-4

replace the code in the "How do I do that?" section just above the figure, with:

final ToolItem sep2 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.SEPARATOR);

final ToolItem checkItem = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.CHECK);

checkItem.setText("Auto Spell");

final ToolItem sep3 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.SEPARATOR);

final ToolItem radioItem1 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.RADIO);

radioItem1.setText("Zoom 1x");

final ToolItem radioItem2 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.RADIO);

radioItem2.setText("Zoom2x");

final ToolItem sep4 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.SEPARATOR);

final ToolItem radioItem3 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.RADIO);

radioItem3.setText("Show Airports");

final ToolItem radioItem4 = new ToolItem(bar, SWT.RADIO);

radioItem4.setText("Show Cities");

 Anonymous   
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Page 153
2nd paragraph from the bottom

"...automatically filsl..."
should read:
"...automatically fills..."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 179
Figure 11-4 caption

"AAn inline ..."
should read:
"An inline ..."

 Anonymous   
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Page 282
3rd paragraph from the bottom

The last sentence of this paragraph says "SWT" when it means "AWT".

The current text reads:
"Although the same comment may be made about other Java-component-based toolkits,
such as SWT and SWING, it's even more true of the SWT."

It should read:
"Although the same comment may be made about other Java-component-based toolkits,
such as AWT and SWING, it's even more true of the SWT."

 Anonymous