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Re: Is Eclipse going to (eventually) move to JavaFX instead of SWT ? [message #1030591 is a reply to message #1030108] |
Sun, 31 March 2013 12:03 |
Ed Merks Messages: 33137 Registered: July 2009 |
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Comments below.
On 31/03/2013 12:32 AM, Sergio Castro wrote:
> As far as I understand it is possible to create the visual components
> of an Eclipse plugin with JavaFX instead of SWT. But, is this a good
> idea ?
> Is Eclipse eventually going to move to JavaFX in the future and
> deprecate SWT ?.
No, SWT won't be deprecated. There is this new project so you can use
e4 with JavaFX as the rendering engine:
http://eclipse.org/proposals/technology.efxclipse/
> As far as I understand user interfaces developed by SWT have a native
> look and feel and this is not always the case in JavaFX.
It's not just native look and feel, it's really using the native widgets.
> If this is correct, does it mean that a pluging developed with a
> JavaFX interface could look weird ?
They aren't native widgets so that might be noticed.
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> thanks for the feedback,
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> Sergio
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Ed Merks
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