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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Q's about adding new function to SWT: transparent regions
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I mean "makes sense because it is a consistent, clean API which maps easily onto all the platforms which do support it".
I understand that you're only willing to implement the win32 version. That's fine (actually, it's sub-optimal, but you take what you can get). In any case, you won't get the API in without showing that it "makes sense" as defined above.
There are other things which have been added which were not available on all platforms. This would be done in the same way: as a HINT which had a return value that indicated whether or not the operation succeeded.
McQ.
On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Patrick Mueller wrote:
OK, so do you mean "makes sense because the Windowing System can support it", or that the function "makes sense as a general thingee you might want to do". Specifically, I have no idea if GTK supports this. Nor Motif. I've asked QSSL at one time and they said it wasn't currently supported (I can't remember if they said it would be; asked on one of their ng's).
Does it make sense as a general purpose thinga-ma-bob? I think obviously yes.
What I'd be willing to do is a win32 version, and suggest the rest be left as no-op stubs (as opposed to throwing a not implemented yet sort of exception).
But obviously this is not nice; it would be better if I did my homework and figured out if it was possible to even do this on other platforms. Which will take me some time. Which I don't have :-). Irregardless, say I find out that this functionality is only workable on Win32 and Mac. Could it still be added to SWT?
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Understood. I was just trying to indicate that he needed to make sure that any API he was proposing made sense across the various platforms. Implementations of that API can come later.
McQ.
Hi,
>Secondly, how much investigation have you done on this on other
>window systems? I know X supports non-rectangular windows, so I
>think you need to take a look at what that support looks like. I'd
>also check Photon, GTk, and Mac at the very least.
Would be no problem on the Mac (but there are probably more important
things for me to do :-)
--andre
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