Re: [javaCompiler-users] Win32 appearance enhancement

[Marco T. <mt...@gm...>]

M. Bashir Al-Noimi wrote:
> Marco Trudel wrote:
>> Check that thread:
>> http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-swt-dev/msg05063.html
>>   
> this thread talking about eclipse not about native things ! :-\

There's no difference in this case my friend.


>> I don't know what a manifest is doing exactly. 
> manifest do great appearance for Win32 apps jut like GTK+ in Linux
> 
>> Are there different 
>> settings possible? If yes, then the SWT manifest doesn't exactly do what 
>> you want, you'll have to handle that yourself.
>> If no, then you're not using SWT 3.2 ;-)
> I'm sure that I'm using latest SWT version cuz I've downloaded it form
> 10 minutes ! :-P

Stupid question: Did you update the SWT version from javaCompiler too?
If not, there you have the problem...


> i think you couldn't understand what i mean, so in the attachment file a
> small swt project i've compiled it by javaCompiler it shown what
> manifest doing . the result so different (ugly appearance without manifest).

I think you don't understand that javaCompiler doesn't do anything else 
than use SWT 3.139.


> For that i suggest to do that in the next version of javaCompiler :
> include standard manifest file into this path javaCompiler\ressources,
> when the user want to build Win32 app javaCompiler copy this standard
> file to the path of compiled app and then rename manifest file to the
> app name.

Nope, SWT is doing this already ;-)
You just have to be really 100% absolutely sure you use SWT 3.2... 
Really completely fully fully 100% completly sure... Fully...


Marco