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Re: [platform-swt-dev] SWT port for Swing!
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From: "Jim White" <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> This all has been discussed here a few times at least. But just to put
> my thoughts concisely:
>
> There are two big pieces missing in the SWT strategy:
>
> A) An AWT Toolkit implementation using SWT. That way systems with SWT
> native implementations can run AWT/Swing code with no problems for
> mixing SWT and AWT/Swing components.
>
> B) An SWT in pure Java. Whether that means AWT + Java2D (faster) or AWT
> + Swing (easier to implement and support) is not as important as
> important as having at least one. This would also support seamless
> mixing of SWT and AWT/Swing components (hopefully with the same API!).
A and B seem to contradict each other. In A you want an AWT on top of SWT,
in B you want SWT on top of AWT.
At any rate, at the strategy level I agree that A is a big missing piece. I
don't agree that B is required at any level.
Bob
