RAP/Custom Widgets

There are several ways to create custom widgets for RAP. This article is not a guide on how to create them, but only links to the relevant resources and adds covers some current issues.

== SWT-Style custom widgets ==

Those are custom widgets like they are created in SWT. There are two types: Compound widgets and Self-drawing widgets.

• Creating Your Own Widgets using SWT
  

This guide by the creators of SWT pre-dates RAP, but is still valid for current SWT/RAP versions. The chapters about native-code can be ignored.

• The RAP Developers Guide on Compund and Self-drawing widgets
  

The current RAP developers guide covers some RAP-specific aspects of such custom-widgets.