Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWTToolkit as AWT Peers

["David Whiteman/RAL/OTI" <David_Whiteman@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, BBAWT (internal name) is a subset of VAME Personal Configuration (AWT+RMI).  As mentioned previously, it can be downloaded from http://www.embedded.oti.com.  I'm one of the main developers on the project, and it is fully supported.  Currently available platforms are Windows, QNX Neutrino, and Linux.  Obviously as more SWT platforms roll out, we'll be able to port the AWT to more platforms.  The cool thing is that 99.9% of our AWT code is portable, so this effort is relatively straightforward (usually just involves working out the kinks of SWT on that platform).  It's almost a complete 1.1 implementation and has some 1.2 API thrown in there as well, mostly to avoid runtime errors with 1.2-based code (see the readme file for more details).

David
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"Jeff Brown" <j9brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/23/2001 03:16 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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It may not have been mentioned here, but there has been some previous
work on writing AWT peers on SWT widgets.  IIRC, the project was
called BBAWT though I'm not sure what its present status is or if
the current project maintainers would be willing to open it up for
further development and eventual integration into the Eclipse runtime
environment as a (free?) plugin.

The last time I looked at the project, the code base seemed quite solid.
Only minor alterations to the handling of the event loop and instantiation
of a Display object seemed necessary to make it work within Eclipse.
[The code to do so was present but inaccessible from the public API
so far as I could tell].  The rest would just be bug fixes and feature
building.

If you start from scratch, good luck!  It does not look like a cake walk to
me.

Jeff.