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Re: [platform-swt-dev] MacOS X port status?
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Andre,
On 11/25/01 3:34 PM, "Andre Weinand" <weinand@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Maurice,
> It seems, at the end of the week I no longer have to use
> 'Project Builder' for MacOS Java programming :-)
> Wow, that would be cool...
>
Very cool. You're making progress that quickly? Would it be possible for
you to do a code drop sometime so that I can try to catch up?
>> I definitively want to chuck
>> that. If we extend the Cocoa objects as local inner classes inside of the
>> SWT objects, we can always get references to the SWT objects using the Cocoa
>> references. Of course the opposite is true as well.
>
>
> Yes, and because we had these issues, the API and the runtime
> behavior is as it is, and clients are relying on it. The fact that
> Cocoa makes things easier does not necessarily mean that the MacOS
> port becomes easier (unless however we change SWT to more closely
> resemble the API and runtime behavior of Cocoa).
You are completely attacking the problem from the opposite angle that I am,
but I'm starting to come around to your way of thinking about it. I'm
really looking forward to seeing your implementation so that I can see how
it differs from what I envisioned.
-Maurice
