Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac OS X port

["Mark Phippard" <markp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andre,

I agree whole-heartedly.  I am hoping that Apple will do some work on Carbon to make it a more equal peer to Cocoa under OS X.  The addition of font-smoothing will go a long way in this area.  

If you are using Carbon Events and eventually have font-smooting it will be difficult to distinguish the app from a Cocoa app.

Mark

Andre Weinand <weinand@xxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 05/21/2002 10:36 AM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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Martin,

>So what I will do is this:
>
>  i) Update SWT/carbon
>ii) Implement native Carbon Tree

That's great!

>
>I´m glad, I can do something to get this thing running, even if it´s 
>not the Cocoa port :-)

Hey, this sounds like the Carbon port is not the real thing :-)
But this is not true.
I started the Mac port using Cocoa, because I like the Cocoa API's 
much better than Carbon.
However Cocoa is just too high-level for implementing SWT (as you 
will see :-). I never managed to get the Cocoa version robust and 
fast.
And I believe that Eclipse users probably care more about whether 
Eclipse runs fast and robust than whether it uses the best OO toolkit 
available....

--andre
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