Re: [platform-swt-dev] C++ Toolkit for SWT

[Zhong Nanhai <higerinbeijing@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome! There are so many ideas that come from the inspiration of SWT.


On 4/15/10, yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx <yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How about to create the UI in XWT, which is language-independent and
> XML-based UI, and use this library to event handling and dynamic UI via
> SWT APIs.
>
> Reagrds
> yves
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> Soyatec - Declarative UI, Modeling UI and Visual Outils
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>> As mentioned below, the answer is Yes. It's called SWT C++ and it's a 100%
>> native C++ implementation of SWT. It's produced entirely from the SWT Java
>> implementation. Basically, it is SWT Java source code compiled to C++
>> source code instead of compiled to Java bytecode. It is like another
>> platform target for SWT: native C++, requiring no JRE and no JNI. It is
>> feature-for-feature, bug-for-bug, and pixel-accurate to SWT Java.
>> Presently, it is at SWT version 3.4.1 and only supported for Win32 desktop
>> and Win CE (Pocket PC and Windows Mobile), and Visual C++ 8.0 (Visual
>> Studio 2005) and 7.1 (Visual Studio 2003). Visual C++ 9.0 (Visual Studio
>> 2008) support is working but not released. Other target OS platforms are
>> being considered.
>>
>> Regarding the use case "such that even the GUI elements could be coded in
>> C++ only," this is not supported out-of-the-box, and we have not pursued
>> this ourselves. That being said, by nature of SWT's design, it should be
>> entirely possible to re-host an SWT C++ control in a SWT Java control or
>> an Eclipse Workbench part (either a view or an editor) along with a JNI
>> wrapper for the SWT C++ control. It may even be possible to do this
>> without changing SWT C++ at all but no guarantees. There's a good
>> explanation of how to wrap a native Win32 or Motif control as an SWT Java
>> control along with JNI DLL on the Eclipse Web site. See the headings
>> "Wrapping a Native Widget", "Windows Native Code", and "Motif Native Code"
>> in the following article:
>> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget/Writing%20Your%20Own%20Widget.htm
>>
>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: Grant Gayed
>>   To: Eclipse Platform SWT component developers list.
>>   Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 12:44 PM
>>   Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] C++ Toolkit for SWT
>>
>>
>>
>>   First to answer your question, there is a project at
>> http://www.pure-native.com/ that takes an SWT release and conver
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