RE: [platform-swt-dev] How to launch a Carbon app without any wra ppers

[Andre Weinand <weinand@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks  Randy,
I'll try your suggestion.

> One side-bar.  Why did you choose Carbon over Cocoa for Eclipse integration?

I started with Cocoa (Cocoa/Java bridge), but it was just not robust 
and fast enough and I could not get all the low level events that I 
need for implementing SWT. I've spent an enormous amount of time 
debugging Cocoa/Java and was getting nowhere. After several weeks I 
gave up and switched to Carbon and since then I had no problems at 
all. Later I've learned that it would have been impossible to 
implement SWT by using the Java/Cocoa-bridge (I would have had to use 
Cocoa via JNI in order to be sucessful).

My Cocoa experiments are both in the repository and in the 
ProjectBuilder archive on the SWT developer resources web page. You 
find a more detailed explanation of why I switched to Carbon in the 
archive of this mailing list.

I would have preferred using Cocoa too, however end users won't care 
whether I've used a high-level toolkit like Cocoa or a low-level 
toolkit like Carbon (as long as its fast enough).

But your are invited to prove me wrong :-)

--andre