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Re: Re: Want to help integrating swing. Is already someone working on it?
- From: Clemens Eisserer <Linuxhippy at web dot de>
- To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:52:36 +0100
- Subject: Re: Re: Want to help integrating swing. Is already someone working on it?
- Organization: http://freemail.web.de/
Hi there!
> I saw on www.eclipse.org that they built SWT on top of awt using
> gtk/gtk2 peers (or motif). Thus I was thinking (I am still looking for
> something to work on in Classpath) is it legal to build Swing op top
> SWT?
Hmm, i would say definitive no.
SWT doesnt support Garbage-Collection, has a terrible api (for me as a swing-programmer ;-) ), and that in general when you use native widgets you'll loose fully api-compytiblility.
Many parts are missing, and the missing GC alone is a big problem.
O.K., it would work to produce a C-Widget-Set which exactly is equal to swing, but I think this isnt really a good idea.
Thats general a problem, swing is absolutly was not designed to be based on native widgets.
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