Re: [platform-swt-dev] swt for other programming languages

[Leo Ufimtsev <Leonidas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, SWT builds on underlying gui's of the native platform.

Windows -> Win32 gui kit

OS X -> Cocoa

Linux -> Gtk.

It makes native calls to each kit based on platform. Like the factory pattern.

In general, people don't do a second level of redirection afik:

"Perl -> Java -> Native" code would probably be pretty in-efficient from a run-time perspective, and debugging that would be vvvveeeerryy hard.

Instead, high level languages like perl or python typically have their own gui bindings. For example for Pyhon there are a lot of gui toolkits, many of which are cross-platform:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming
http://insights.dice.com/2014/11/26/5-top-python-guis-for-2015/

So usually you'd either use Java+SWT, or <high level language>+Some gui binding.

Hope it helps.

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 3:55 PM, srikanth d <srikanthdandamudi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, 

I have seen the applications of swt and it is quite interesting.

I am no software expert, but would like to develop an application which can create a bidirectional link between code and gui but for a language other than java. 

Lets say perl.

So, basically, creating custom widget and placing it into the layout should generate a code of chosen language in this case perl.

Does swt support such way of working.

If so, please point to an example.

Really appreciate the help here.

Thanks,

Srikanth

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