Re: [platform-swt-dev] status of cvs for Mac OS X port?

[Mike_Wilson@xxxxxxx]

I pulled your code from the site Maurice as you requested. You know it would be great if we had a more in depth description of the situation with Cocoa which we could put up on the dev resources page. That way when new people come along and ask about it, we could just point them there. Maybe as an swt faq entry...

McQ.

Maurice Parker <Maurice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 04/02/2002 06:54 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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Hey,

Whoa!  Andre, slow down and save some work for the rest of us.  ;-)

I wish I had known about the presentation before JavaOne.  I was just 
around the corner at the 4th Street Bar & Grill (at the WebWork gathering)
  when everyone was at the Thirsty Bear.  Heck, I was at the Thirsty Bear 
for the JBoss sessions earlier that day.  Bummer...

At JavaOne, I finally got the low-down on what went wrong with using the 
Cocoa API's from an Apple engineer.  If you don't initiate the interface 
between the Cocoa and Java environments from Cocoa, you will experience 
subtle, and random threading problems.  Basically the Java Bridge will 
never work for SWT in it's current form and may never be able to be used 
in this way.  Thank goodness we got the Carbon API's added to Mac OS X or 
SWT wouldn't be possible at all!

McQ, could you please remove the BlackMoon code from the Eclipse website?  
The only people that would be interested in it will be Apple engineers 
trying to debug OS X's Cocoa/Java integration.  ;-)

Back to the task at hand.  Andre, I was trying implement live window 
resizing last night on your last code drop, and found that I needed the 
new Carbon Event Manager to get it done.  I see that some code for it is 
in there for the newer Event mechanism.  Any updates to that code recently?
   I don't want work on the Event mechanisms if you've done a lot of recent 
updates.

-Maurice

On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 02:57  PM, Andre Weinand wrote:

>
>> I saw some activity a couple of weeks ago on the eclipse.org cvs server 
>> that indicated that 'mcq' had added a folder hierarchy for Mac OS X 
>> carbon support. Does anyone know the status of this?
>
> A brief status update:
>
> Last week I got Eclipse up and running on the MacOS X port of SWT (see 
> attached screen short).
> I can import, edit, and build JUnit and most of Eclipse's functionality 
> works, albeit with small glitches and UI quirks.
>
> Erich Gamma gave a demo of an early version of this work at JavaOne.
>
> Because of this I decided to prioritize the demo work for JavaOne over 
> the effort to get the port into CVS.
>
> I'm planning to get my code into CVS soon. However, I would prefer to 
> become self-hosting first :-)
> Working with the CVS setup from within Eclipse would be much simpler....
>
> --andre
>

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