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RCP Developer™

Documentation for RCP Developer™

RCP Developer has four component products — SWT Designer, WindowTester SWT, Help Composer, and RCP Packager — each with its own documentation and user forums. Product documentation is the same as the Eclipse Help for the product.

Tutorial:
A Walkthrough of Using
RCP Developer

Follow the steps below to walk through the basic steps of using RCP Developer.

Install RCP Developer »
Create a sample RCP application » (create a project and export it as an RCP product, getting all its features from a template, for this example)
Create a project in Eclipse to be your app's Help »
Deploy your sample application » (generate native installer executables from the RCP product)
Create a GUI test for the application »
Generate public web "docs" pages » (generate them from the Eclipse Help pages)

Forum

SWT Designer™

Quickly create the views, editors, perspectives, preference pages and other UI elements for your Eclipse RCP app.

Product Documentation »

Forum

WindowTester™SWT

Easily create and run unit tests for every GUI made with SWT (generating tests in pure Java, for ease of change); create system level tests; automate running of test suites.

Product Documentation »

Forum

Help Composer™

Quickly create documentation in the Eclipse Help system, organizing and formatting Help files; automatically translate Help files into Web pages for your public site.

Product Documentation »