From: Chris Grindstaff <chrisg@...>
Date: 2001-10-27T10:40:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23582] Re: GUI for Ruby


Friday, October 26, 2001, 6:54:22 PM, Sean Russell wrote:
SR> Robert Feldt wrote:

>>> reasons they specify (debugging, optimization, etc) having the platform
>>> abstraction (Win32/Linux) written in the higher level language (in SWT
>>> its Java) is quite interesting.

SR> I tried looking at SWT; not only doesn't it appear to be open source, and 
SR> it certainly isn't easy to get to; you have to go through two registration 
SR> processes to download it.  Also, it looks like it is tightly bundled with 
SR> the IDE; has anybody actually seen this toolkit?  How hard does it look to 
SR> separate out into something we could begin to convert?

Yes it's a bit of a pain to get at the moment.

It's not tightly bound at all. The SWT code has no dependences on any
layers above it. In fact, if you look in the
<eclipseRootDirectory>\plugins\org.eclipse.swt you will find all of
the Java code and the single DLL or so.  SWT depends on nothing else in
Eclipse.  Lots of other parts of Eclipse (JFace and the IDE) use SWT.

HTH,
Chris
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