Which swt/jface control to use for writing telnet in eclipse rcp?

Question

I have to write a telnet in eclipse rcp. So can anybody tell me which control should i use?

here control is for eg: swt.Text, swt.StyledText.

Answer 1

It depends on many things. If you want to allow for any form of formatting in the output - like support vt100 - then a StyledText control is good. If you want to keep it as simple as possible, I would probably use a Text for the current input, and a multi-line Text for the output.

If you have more freedom in your RCP application, consider adding the Console view to the application. This will give a very polished way of adding telnet support...