Java tutorial
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent; import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionListener; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; public class EventSelection { public static void main(String[] args) { final Display display = new Display(); final Shell shell = new Shell(display, SWT.SHELL_TRIM); shell.setLayout(new FillLayout()); Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.RIGHT); button.setText("text on the button"); button.addSelectionListener(new SelectionListener() { public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent arg0) { System.out.println("selected"); } public void widgetDefaultSelected(SelectionEvent arg0) { } }); shell.open(); // Set up the event loop. while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) { // If no more entries in event queue display.sleep(); } } display.dispose(); } }