[news.eclipse.platform.swt] SWT port for Swing!

["Christopher Deckers" <christopher.deckers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

A week and a half ago I started to port SWT to Swing (let's call it
SWTSwing). I just considered Swing to be the "native windowing system" of
the virtual machine, and started coding.

I don't know if anyone did that before, but I do not care as it is more for
self-learning :)  If this is not yet done, then people could use my results
when it will be mature enough.
Anyway, I think it is a really good idea for a port so that SWT applications
could use Swing without changing the code for the few non-supported
platforms. Eventually developers could use some Swing specific code if they
want (similar to OLE on Windows). Moreover, SWT programs would work right
away whenever a new platform with new VM is out, while waiting for the real
native port to be developed. There are of course many other possibilities
brought by such a port...

For now, I succeeded in the following:
- Branching to the swing event queue to process it on demand.
- Handling layouts and containement hierarchies.
- Basic handling of Control, Composite, Buttons, Menus, Graphic Context,
ProgressBar, Sash, Dialog.
- Cursors (even for the non-defined types)

This is at early stage, so don't expect too much... I am currently working
on tab folders and will probably go for tables and trees right after that.

I created a Web site for SWTSwing 2 days ago:
http://chrriis.brainlex.com/swtswing/

Could people let me know what they think about this port? I still thing that
both Swing and SWT are great, so please don't start a war, that is not the
purpose of this post! ;)

Best Regards,
-Christopher