[news.eclipse.tools] Re: KDE and GNOME interfaces

[none@xxxxxxx (Boris Shingarov)]

David,

> There is another thread where there are problems because 
> under Windows a value is a handle and under Linux it is a pointer - 
> so much for one common API.

Yes, I remember that one.  There was a bug in SWT, where SWT did
not throw an exception on an error, and it should.  Someone was
trying to work around this bug for the time before it gets fixed,
by using introspection to access the internal structures in SWT.

Of course, internally SWT works different on Windows and on Motif;
however I do not see how this is a problem in the case you are
describing.

Boris