Re: [Swingwt-developers] Is SwingWT Dead?

[Robin Rawson-T. <ro...@ra...>]

Hi, I wouldn't say that SwingWT is dead - it just does what I need so I
haven't been compelled to work on it in a while. I'm still maintaining it in
that if I spot bugs, they get fixed and if anyone wants to send patches they
can be reviewed and released. I'm just not working on any new features.

Theoretically, you should be able to use SwingWT with the Carbon/SWT port to
provide a Swing implementation for something like Soylatte without any
modifications.

As Scott said, it should be possible with his changes to use SwingWT as an
AWT for normal Swing too. I'm not sure how complete an AWT we have though
and how well this would work.

Rob





2009/5/18 Scott Cytacki <sc...@co...>

> Yes I had that idea myself.   I don't have time to work on it, but the
> work I did to make a swt implementation of the core awt components, used
> by swing, might be the best way to do this.
> This approach would also work with the Carbon SWT.
>
> I'd image if someone can setup demo code and perhaps a screencast that
> might be enough to bring in some interest from SoyLatte folks.
>
> This idea is a little different that the original SwingWT.  I posted it
> a while ago, but the basic idea is that: Swing uses AWT for this
> connection to the native environment.  AWT uses Cocoa, Win32 or GTK/XLib
> for its implementation.   So instead it is possible to implement AWT
> using SWT.   I had a basic example of this working at one point, it
> really isn't very hard, the main work is the graphic context
> translation, and dealing with Fonts.  SwingWT has already done most of
> graphics context translation work, and the Fonts seemed to mostly be a
> configuration issue.
>
> This approach is different than the original SwingWT, because in that
> case each Swing lightweight component is instead rendered as a
> heawyweight SWT component.  That is a much larger API to implement
> instead of just the parts of AWT used by Swing.
>
> Scott
>
> Lehni wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > The last release of SwingWT was on 21st August, 2007.
> >
> > The activity on the mailing list seems to have since come to a halt.
> >
> > This raises the question: Is this project still being maintained, or
> > is it dead?
> >
> > I hope it is living on.
> >
> > One possibility to revive it would be if it was used on OSX to give
> > SoyLatte a Swing implementation, based on the 64 bit ready Cocoa SWT
> > port.
> >
> > Jürg
> >
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