Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome Library

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Gabriele,

> Perhaps I wasn't clear about my question.
> So I try to explain better my question.
> Is it possible to use java-gnome for interact with gnome and SWT for draw
> the GUI in the same application ?

Altough this should be possible, I wouldn't recomend. SWT and GTK have very
different object models and expect different responsibilities regarding
releasing OS and toolkit resources like handles and bitmaps. It would be very
hard to mix both APIs and have a working, stable application.

If you need something from Gnome or GTK that SWT won't provide, you have two paths:

1. Create a new SWT widget exposing the desired functionality. This may be
trivial but may also be a chalending task. Later think about how your new
widget would be implemented on other SWT targets like Win32, Motif or MacOS.

2. Drop SWT at all and use only Gnome and GTK widgets. Later if you need Win32
support you may try compiling java-gnome using the GTK port for Win32. I think
nobody has done so, but this will happen sooner or later, as Gimp and other big
GTK apps are working on Win32 just fine.

The reverse is also true: expanding GTK to provide equivalent widgets and the
ones you like on SWT or dropping GTK (and Gnome) altogether.


[]s, Fernando Lozano