Want to help integrating swing. Is already someone working on it?

Tue Mar 4 12:04:00 GMT 2003

Dhek Bhun Kho wrote:
>Hi Cedric,
>>>>Legal: why not?
>>>GPL? The question should be: is it legal to _try_ to implement Swing on
>top of SWT (in the hypothetical case that it is remotely possible) and
>include it into GNU.
>ok.
>>Why: Swing is too flexible to be built on top of another complex toolkit.
>>Cedric
>>>How come? I am not talking about accessibility support or any descendent
>of JComponent. Please kill this illusion of me :D. I was aiming at the
>core of Swing to start with: UIManager, UIDefaults, JRootPane,
>JGlassPane, JWindow, JFrame, JComponent, JLayeredPane, SwingUtilities.
>UIManager and UIDefaults are for PLAF. I don't think there is anything in
SWT that can help you here.
JWindow, JFrame, JComponent are in Swing subclasses of AWT Window, Frame,
Compnonent. How does SWT help you there? If you want to be compatible,
they need to be subclasses of theses AWT stuff. you can certainly include
hidden intermediary classes, but surely not SWT objects.
I just don't get it.
Cedric