A SWT Calendar widget

Today I want to show how to use of the open-source project SWT-Calendar. With a few lines of code you can implement a wonderful small calendar widget for SWT, that is not delivered by default.

I’ve written a tiny RCP where you can select a date.

If you click on the text-field you can edit and save a date. This dialog is very easy to integrate in your RCP, will preselect the date of the text-field and will solve all your problems with the missing calendar-widget.

Downloads
Download the Calendar-Demo as Plug-In (Source included - 56kByte)
Download the Calendar-Demo as RCO (Source inluded - 6,2Mbyte)

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