[news.eclipse.tools] Re: SWT/Fox volunteers wanted

[Werner Punz <werpu@xxxxxx>]

Ivan Markov wrote:

> There is almost no C++ programming involved in this project, really. The
> C++ part of the project is kept as trivial as possible and in fact
> consists of a bunch of one-line native method implementations that just
> delegate to the Fox peer.
> 
> For example, the public method
> 'void FXWindow::move(FXuint x, FXuint y, FXuint w, FXuint h)' of the class
> FXWindow is surfaced in Java as
> 'public static final native void FXWindow_move(int handle, int x, int y,
> int w, int h)'
> in class org.eclipse.swt.internal.fox.OS
> and all the C++ implementation of this method does is
> {
> FXWindow* pWindow = (FXWindow*)handle;
> pWindow->move(x, y, w, h);
> }
> 
> You know, I try to follow the SWT philosophy here. (All things in Java.)
> :)
great sounds like my kind of project :-), if you need a small helping
hand (I'm in the same situation as you projectwise being stuffed) for the
weekends on this, make it public an I will give a hand or two :-)
Might be a good chance to learn SWT as well :-)

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Memory Dragon