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Re: [e4-dev] Does that mean SWT only exist in desktop ?

Hi,

   But.... we can't port our existing code over :-( at least in certain percentage or degree .. :-(  

Thanks

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:33 AM, <yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tom Schindl
> <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Doing a full SWT-Port for the Web is a very hard task because some of
>> the concepts in SWT can't be emulated easily on the browser:
>>
>> * Event-Loop: Todays browser though HTML5 brings webworkers are still
>>  single threaded and so you can't e.g open blocking dialogs like you
>>  do in SWT => SWT would have to introduce API with callbacks so
>>  that one could write single-source code.
>>
>>  An example might make this clear:
>>
>>  Today:
>>  ----------8<----------
>>  MessageBox msg = new MessageBox(parent,SWT.ICON_ERROR);
>>  msg.setText("I'm the message");
>>  msg.open();  // Blocking call
>>  System.out.println("I'm running after dialog closed");
>>  ----------8<----------
>>
>>  In Future:
>>  ----------8<----------
>>  MessageBox msg = new MessageBox(parent,SWT.ICON_ERROR);
>>  msg.setText("I'm the message");
>>  msg.open(new Runnable() {
>>    public void run() {
>>      System.out.println("I'm running after dialog closed");
>>    }
>>  });

It is exactly one of benefice of using XWT: physical separation between
event handling and UI. XWT can manage the both cases transparently. We can
define the event handling policy (sync, async and delayed async) between
declarative UI and event handling based on Java Handling, Bundle service,
web service etc.

yves


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