[platform-swt-dev] Re: GC Code cleanup (3)

["L. Mihalkovic" <totolaricot@xxxxxxx>]

as part of my portable Cairo GC project, I was wondering if someone has 
thought about using a GCFactory class (or any similar mechanism) to 
allow the creation of a extended GC implementations?

for example in my case I created a EGC interface to add support for 
Composition. at the moment the only existing one is AlphaComposition 
which adds porter duff to GC.


Laurent M. wrote:
> see "GC Code cleanup" for the context.. .
>
>
> I also noticed the pattern of
>
> Color.carbon_new
> Color.gtk_new
> Color.win32_new
>
> I was wondering why not have a Color.allocate_new
>
> or have both, or have a ColorFactory.allocate_new for each supported 
> platform, such that my portable GC's GC.getBackground() could then call 
> any of these to get a valid platform specific color instance.
>
> [santa?!! saaaannnta... can u tell'em about that one too pleaaasse]
>
> cheers.