[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Hosting SWT windows inside a WIN32 app

[rickkhunter@xxxxxxxxxxx (Yannick Grosjean)]

Here's an interresting challenge.

As part of the migration process of porting our application from win32 to 
java/SWT, it is a requierement that the migration be done progressively. 
In other words, the main window of the application will remain  win32 
while we gradually re-write the child windows with SWT. 

Our current approach is to contain SWT shells by first creating them, then 
using their window handles and the SetParent WIN32 function to attach them 
to our application. So far all seemed well but when the newly created SWT 
window has the focus, the main window loses it.  

> From what I can tell, it's because the Shell object is by default created 
as a main window. My question is this, is there a way to create a SWT 
shell that would be a child to a WIN32 main window? 

I have tried several things, but I can't seem to find a way to construct a 
Shell  and giving it a WIN32 window handle as a parent. 

Is there a way to do that? or to do something that would do the equivalent?

Yannick Grosjean
Solutuons JetSoft