Re: [dsdp-ercp-dev] [eRCP] Multiple LCDs enhancement request posted on b

[Mark Rogalski <rogalski@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks so much for contributing ideas
for eSWT. I'm happy to see more community participation. I think your proposed
API may be unnecessary though. The concept of Eclipse views already provides
an abstraction for an app to put content on a different screen. And since
views are controlled by an eRCP workbench, the application does not have
to worry about other displays or where they are located. How displays are
used is device specific and we really don't want apps to have to know this
information for each device. (For instance, on most phones the external
display can show something different than the internal screen, but on some
the same content is shown.) This requires that you have a customized workbench
for your device, but then generic apps can run on the device and take advantage
of multiple displays.  The workbench may have to know something about
the eSWT implementation for the platform. For instance, know that displaying
a shell at location (10000, 10000) puts that shell on the external display.
I also think the alert on a shell in
not needed. In most cases, only one display is active at a time and eSWT
should display the alert on the active display. If both displays are active
(think Nintendo DS), then either screen could be used for alerts. Tying
an alert to a Shell is dangerous because Shells may be in the background
or invisible at times and alert behavior is not obvious in this situation.

         
      Mark

Birkler, Jörgen <Jorgen.Birkler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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06/28/2007 07:40 AM

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Subject	[dsdp-ercp-dev] [eRCP] Multiple LCDs enhancement request posted on        bugzilla #194749

Hi eSWT developers, 
I've prepared an enhancement poroposal so that multiple dispays (i.e. LCDs)
can be supported by eSWT. 
Please comment: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=194749

If the approach seem acceptable we will provide more detailed javadoc.

/Jörgen

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