[platform-swt-dev] Some questions for the SWT developers

[dr_seltsam@xxxxxx]

Hello!


I'm evaluating SWT for our company and have a few questions regarding to it:

1) There is no support for true MDI like with Swings JInternalFrame. Will it
stay this way or is this maybe planned for a later version? If this is not
planned, then why? Too difficult to implement on non-Windows platforms and/or
too time consuming? (And _please_, don't tell me to use tabs or something
similar limited, since this is no replacement for MDI.)

2) What is the relation between SWT and JFace? Eclipse seems to use JFace
intensively (Or am I wrong?), so will SWT be supported/developed in the future?

3) Why is the parent property in SWT widgets implemented in such an (sorry)
odd way by using an argument in the constructor methods, like in e.g.
text(Composite parent, int style)? This prevents using them as beans and with visual
tools, I think. Why is it not implemented like in Swing where the parent
property is set when the widget gets added to its parent?

4) Why is there no addNotify method for the SWT widgets? (I'm using it to
extend the Swing widgets with necessary extensions.)

I hope you could answer some of these questions since I'm trying to decide
wether or not we will be able to switch our framework from Swing to SWT.


Many thanks in advance,
Dr. Seltsam

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