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longhorn [message #457119] Fri, 17 June 2005 06:20 Go to next message
Xavier Méhaut is currently offline Xavier MéhautFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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hello,
Longhorn wil come in few months now on the market, and with it, winfx...
It is quite unclear if winfx will become in the future the native UI
library on windows platform, but I would nevertheless try to know what
could be influence on this fact on eclipse SWt native libraries... Is
there plans to try to take intot account this new library in future
versions of Eclipse? Actually, the main benefits of SWT are speed (even
if Swing has well progressed last years) and look and feel of the
pltaform... If Microsoft choose another type of UI library, the risk is
to render in longhorn Eclipse look outdated...
I would like to know the feeling of people about that...
Read you soon
Xavier
Re: longhorn [message #457157 is a reply to message #457119] Mon, 20 June 2005 10:46 Go to previous message
Yves Harms is currently offline Yves HarmsFriend
Messages: 80
Registered: July 2009
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Well, I think in the short run WinFX support would be definitly a nice
addition. As soon as most commercial application vendors addept WINFX
it's definitly a requirement (at least for our company).

As far as I remember WinFX is not tied to Longhorn, but to the .NET
Release 2.0. So it will be available for Windows XP (.NET
redistributable required), too .

Are there already any plans from the SWET team to start a port to WinFX ?
Since WinFX supports some new features like SVG grafics and a XML
described UI it would be interesting to know how this will affect the
SWT API and features (if at all).

Yves



> hello,
> Longhorn wil come in few months now on the market, and with it, winfx...
> It is quite unclear if winfx will become in the future the native UI
> library on windows platform, but I would nevertheless try to know what
> could be influence on this fact on eclipse SWt native libraries... Is
> there plans to try to take intot account this new library in future
> versions of Eclipse? Actually, the main benefits of SWT are speed (even
> if Swing has well progressed last years) and look and feel of the
> pltaform... If Microsoft choose another type of UI library, the risk is
> to render in longhorn Eclipse look outdated...
> I would like to know the feeling of people about that...
> Read you soon
> Xavier
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