[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Reuse/Extending Mozilla.java and IE.java

["Grant Gayed" <grant_gayed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The patch that's in bug 178918 won't be in for 3.4.  It's too late in the
3.4 dev cycle, and it's not clear that this is a change that should be made.
Decisions about letting new api-like features like this in receive careful
consideration because once they're accepted they're in forever.

Grant


"Philip Chang" <philip2134@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:g0uu7o$qo1$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thx Grant,
> I will look at the subclassing task, but I want for example also specify
> the profile for Mozilla as described in bug
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=178918
>
> But I guess for this I have to copy paste Mozilla.java to my package, or
> do you see another way for doing it?
>
> As I can see this bug has already a patch applied is there any chance
> that it gets into 3.4?
>
> Regards,
> Philip
>
> Grant Gayed schrieb:
> > Hi Philip,
> >
> > See http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#subclassing and note that there
is a
> > way to do it described at the bottom.
> >
> > If you're looking to provide additional browser functionality then an
> > alternative approach would be to always use a Mozilla-based Browser and
> > program to it via JavaXPCOM.  For info about using JavaXPCOM with the
> > Browser see http://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#howusejavaxpcom .
> >
> > Grant
> >
> >
> > "Philip Chang" <philip2134@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:g0tku8$i6b$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I want to extend the existing IE/Mozilla class because I want to add
> >> some other interfaces for both browsers.
> >>
> >> But for doing this I figured out there is no other way than to
> >> copy/paste them in my projet and compile it my self which is really
bad.
> >>
> >> Because I have than some references to internal classes and also in the
> >> case of Mozilla I have dependencies via jni to native c code (Also IE
> >> but direct in IE.java itself). Some accesses are also discouraged so...
> >>
> >> Is there no other way than to make a copy if I want to extend but reuse
> >> (yes I want to subclass) the existing code base?
> >>
> >> I'm aware that I cannot expect any support from eclipse than but it
> >> still would be great to reuse as code as much as possible without
> >> creating dependencies on too many internal classes.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Philip
> >
> >