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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Hello
No worries.  :-)  I appreciate being pointed in the right direction. I had no idea that the newsgroups were even there. In my haste to find as much out about SWT as possible, I skipped right over them. I've since subscribed to eclipse.tools.
 
Thanks for the info on the OSX and Palm ports. I've downloaded the Cocoa and Carbon source zips from http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-swt-home/dev.html but, unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to take a look at either one yet. I'm curious to know more of the details behind why Carbon might be preferable to Cocoa...
 
I've seen some posts to other newsgroups (IBM VAME, I think) that implied the SWT was being used under the hood for javax.microedition.lcdui. I'm interested to learn what you find out next week.
 
Thanks again,
Greg
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Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] Hello


I realized after I wrote that message that it sounded like I was trying to get rid of you. :-)

I'm not. We're happy to have you around, in particular if you want to help out on the Mac port. We haven't gotten very far with this yet. Andre Weinand has done some Carbon based work which you can find off of the SWT component developer resources page. He previously tried using Cocoa and believes that Carbon is more liklely to succeed. I'm sure he can say more about it.

I know that OTI has done some work on a PalmOS port of SWT which they are using internally to implement the MID-P lcdui classes. I'm not sure what the plan is for making it available via eclipse.org (or even if ther is one). That's something I'm hoping to find out more on next week when I meet up with the lead develoepr.

McQ.



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> - Is/will the SWT be redistributable outside of Eclipse? If so, how?
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See http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/faq.html#useStandAlone

> - Are there any plans to provide applet support for SWT-based programs?
> It seems like only applications are supported now (via the Shell class).
>
We haven't spent much time looking at providing Applet support via SWT, since that hasn't been our focus. There are several issues including embedding SWT inside AWT (of which there has been much discussion on the newsgroup), getting the SWT JAR(s) signed properly, and figuring out a strategy for minimizing the size of the download.

Speaking of the newsgroup... That's probably a better place to be asking this kind of question. If you go to eclipse.org you can find out how to sign up for it.

McQ.


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