RE: [platform-swt-dev] patch for gtk2 binding

["Boris Shingarov" <Boris_Shingarov@xxxxxxx>]

Jeff,

You are very welcome to work on Text, as currently nobody is doing it.
There are some underwater rocks that we will have to discuss when you are at writing certain pieces of the widget.  For example, the semantics of modification and selection change events in SWT, are somewhat tricky.  Also, we will have to agree on exactly how we pass/answer Strings; this is an area that is changing right now, and we need to have a complete agreement so it's consistent from widget to widget.

Boris

Jeffrey Morgan <Jeffrey.Morgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 07/11/2002 07:45 AM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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I would be interested in replacing GtkText with GtkTextView in the
Text widget.  Of course this would not be a good choice if somebody
is already working on this or if this needs to be completed within the
next week.  I believe this would also fix bug #21452.
 
-Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Shingarov [mailto:Boris_Shingarov@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:40 PM
To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [platform-swt-dev] patch for gtk2 binding


Jeffrey:  If you find something that you are comfortable with fixing, by all means go and do it.  Don't hesitate to ask us in the middle.  SWT has a lot of quirks that exist because of historical reasons, and are not documented anywhere. 
Speaking of the ProgressBar patch:  the change is good.  Apart from getting rid of deprecated API is good in itself, it also fixes a problem with ProgressBar causing crashes on some broken themes.