Eclipse RCP Forms part one

Eclipse Forms allow you to achieve the Web look. Eclipse Editors for Manifest files (f.e) are coded in Forms.

tutorials links:
vogella tutorial about forms
forms tutorial 2
forms tutorial 3

Forms use Views:

public class FormView extends ViewPart {
public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
  toolkit = new FormToolkit(parent.getDisplay());
  form = toolkit.createForm(parent);
  form.setText("Hello, Eclipse Forms");

it create the form where you can set other widgets.

Therefore forms use GridLayot, GridData, Buttons and other similar as SWT.

 GridLayout layout = new GridLayout();
 form.getBody().setLayout(layout);

 layout.numColumns = 2;
 GridData gd = new GridData();
 gd.horizontalSpan = 2;
 link.setLayoutData(gd);
 Label label = new Label(form.getBody(), SWT.NULL);
 label.setText("Text field label:");
 Text text = new Text(form.getBody(), SWT.BORDER);
 text.setLayoutData(new GridData(GridData.FILL_HORIZONTAL));
 Button button = new Button(form.getBody(), SWT.CHECK);
 button.setText("An example of a checkbox in a form");
 gd = new GridData();
 gd.horizontalSpan = 2;
 button.setLayoutData(gd);

 Hyperlink link = toolkit.createHyperlink(form.getBody(), "Click here.", SWT.WRAP);
 link.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkAdapter() {
   public void linkActivated(HyperlinkEvent e) {
     System.out.println("Link activated!");
   }
 });

create a hyperlink as a HTML hyperlink.


for more information look tutorials