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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X Port
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Hi
It seems most folks would like to use Java bindings for Cocoa to port
SWT. Given the JNI layer (org.eclipse.swt.internal.motif (or win32, in
osx's case org.eclipse.swt.internal.aqua) exposes a class named OS
encapsulating the various native calls, we would have two ways to use
JDirect, one would be to call JDirect methods directly from the classes
found in org.eclipse.swt.widgets package or we could maintain the
porting layer but without using native calls from the OS class but
instead use JDirect calls. Any thoughts on this?
Cheers
On Monday, November 12, 2001, at 03:49 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
I just want to add my vote for a Mac OS X port.
With its BSD underpinnings and easy to use UI, I think that OS X has the
potential to become very popular among developers and it deserves
consideration as a supported Eclipse platform.
OS X comes with a set of Java classes that wrapper their native Cocoa
widgets.
This URL has everything you need to know about Cocoa:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/CocoaTopics.html
A couple of links off of that URL are to the docs for the Java classes:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/
Java/AppKitTOC.html
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Java/
FoundationTOC.html
I do not have the right background to assist much in the programmin
effort,
but I am certainly willing to help in testing.
Every copy of OS X has Java 1.3 with Hotspot VM.
If anyone knows of some good Mac development forums or mailing lists,
please post them. I think we should go to those places to try to
solicit
some Mac programmers to come over to Eclipse and help out.
Thanks
Mark Phippard
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