Re: [platform-swt-dev] Is anyone actively working on the SWT Cocoa bindi

["Alex Blewitt" <alex.blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps as a way to drum up participation, could you shed some light on the
>  likely benefits of a Cocoa binding over Carbon (other than empty scrollbars
>  not appearing)?

I think the main one is Carbon is getting less supported over time
whilst Cocoa is the future. It's a case of needing it for when it
becomes unsupported, if there is such a thing ;-)

Actually, it's probably not that bad, but Carbon is essentially
maintenance only at this point and new APIs don't get added.

>  Is there any chance of seeing new styles or widgets in SWT which gracefully
>  degrade on other platforms?  Or perhaps are emulated like Coolbar is on
>  Mac?

One cool thing I've submitted a patch for is the ability for a window
to use the 'animated property' to be able to do a gradual resize
rather than a sudden change in size.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=211697

>  I know what Steve's going to say:  "Open a bugzilla and attach a patch".
>  But I'm just wondering where the line is when it comes to supporting
>  "hints" that only have a meaning on a single platform.  In other words, are
>  there patches that wouldn't even be considered?

It's a good question. I also wonder whether annotating bugs in such a
way to annotate that they have patches for consideration - there's a
few bugs in there with patches but seem to take a while to get going.

Alex