[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: SWT/eclipse closer to native mac apps

[Laurent Mihalkovic <ljp_m@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

Yes, I am interested in getting the code pushed inside eclipse, rather 
than maintain my own side pet project. I saw that last month someone had 
opened a bug for the very same problem. If people from the SWT group 
define more specifically how they want things. I will morph my code into 
it to increase the chances of acceptance.

If you look at this bug report, I attached a screenshot of my workbench: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=222859
It is running with a 'Mac OS Presentation'. Is there a chance that 
something like that would make it to the workbench distribution? Should 
I open a bug for that ? (even if the presentation has no interest for 
the eclipse team, it requires a tiny change to one class in the 
workbench in order to work).

cheers,
lm/



Tom Schindl wrote:
> Hi Laurent,
>
> The way to go is to submit a bug against Platform/SWT or Platform/UI 
> and attach the code. This assumes that you want to make it opensource 
> under EPL.
>
> Tom
>
> Laurent Mihalkovic schrieb:
> > last sunday I started looking into getting SWT apps to feel more like 
> > native Mac OS apps. In the first version, I extended SWT with some 
> > quickly hacked JNA code as a proof of concept of supporting native 
> > Mac OS Toolbars. as it did work, I rewrote the code with native SWT 
> > changes (the many additions to OS.java were trivial thanks to JNIgen).
> >
> > At the moment I am working on supporting split views (I want to move 
> > the perspective switcher to the Mac toolbar, as a square looking 
> > split view). as I was there, I wrote a simple custom presentation 
> > that makes eclipse look a lot closer to a native mac app. For that 
> > one, I have had to make a tiny change to workench ui. how do I go 
> > about getting some of this integrated into SWT and workbench?
> >
> > very best.


--
Laurent Mihalkovic, co-author SWT/JFace in Action (www.manning.com/scarpino)