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  <h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading"><span>Dev/SWT</span></h1>
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      SWT is a core GUI library in XOWA.
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          <a href="#Overview"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Overview</span></a>
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          <a href="#SWT_is_not_used_in_HTTP_Server_or_Android"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">SWT is not used in HTTP Server or Android</span></a>
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          <a href="#Packaging_details"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Packaging details</span></a> 
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              <a href="#Platform-specific_jar"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Platform-specific jar</span></a>
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              <a href="#Annual_update"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">Annual update</span></a>
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          <a href="#SWT_version"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">SWT version</span></a>
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      The <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/swt/" rel="nofollow" class="external text">SWT library</a> is an open-source GUI library, used by the open-source Java IDE <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/" rel="nofollow" class="external text">Eclipse</a>.
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      XOWA uses SWT in its GUI application across the 3 major operating systems: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X. This means that SWT handles everything visual: including buttons, text boxes, windows, and of course, the HTML browser.
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="SWT_is_not_used_in_HTTP_Server_or_Android">SWT is not used in HTTP Server or Android</span>
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      If you are running XOWA as an HTTP server or are using the Android version, then SWT is not used.
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="Packaging_details">Packaging details</span>
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="Platform-specific_jar">Platform-specific jar</span>
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      SWT comes packaged in an operating system-specific jar called swt.jar. XOWA includes this at /xowa/operating_system_name/swt/swt.jar. For example, on Linux 64-bit, this file is at /xowa/linux_64/swt/swt.jar
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="Annual_update">Annual update</span>
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      SWT does a major update annually in coordination with the Eclipse release. Typically, this occurs in June. There are also development snapshots that are released during the course of the year.
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      XOWA will always update SWT shortly after the major version release. Depending on changes, it may also update after development snapshots.
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      <span class="mw-headline" id="SWT_version">SWT version</span>
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      XOWA v0.0.0 through v2.6.4 had been using SWT 4.2.
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      XOWA had been stalled in using SWT 4.3 and SWT 4.4 due to the following SWT bug: <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=429739" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=429739</a> This bug was corrected in SWT 4.5.
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      As of v2.6.5, XOWA now uses SWT 4.5. As a result the following 2 bugs were also fixed:
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        Printing was not available. See: <a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=376358" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=376358</a>
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        A very small minority of pages would not render the same as a browser. For example, <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lubbers_Don't_Live" rel="nofollow" class="external free">https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lubbers_Don't_Live</a>!
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