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Re: [eclipse-incubator-e4-dev] The future of e4 SWT for native OS ?
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Kevin McGuire schrieb:
Hi Ivan,
>> It sounds like SWT for native OS will stick on 3.x only... and will
not move forward to version 4.0...
This is incorrect. SWT will continue to support native OS for, well
really as long as we can see there being an SWT. The need and value of
native look and feel will remain as relevant in 4.0 as it is now.
>> or... e4 will use a very different design than 3.x and e4 not only
continue support SWT for native OS, it also will support AJAX, Flex and
Silverlight platform ?
I will let the SWT guys expand on this from a technical standpoint. but
I wouldn't at all characterize it as a "very different design". The
easiest mental model is to simply consider Flex and Silverlight (and RAP
for that matter) as new platforms. Steve spoke similar words in his
presentation. There will however be some API and programming model
differences, for example Steve mentioned that running your own event
loop won't make sense on the web platforms.
Infact you simply can't. There's no threading (besides using google
gears in browsers). In webspace you don't have a blocking dialog you're
working with callbacks and I hope that e.g. a callback-API will get part
of SWT 3.x-API and allows us to prepare our 3.x code for a smooth
transition when E4 is out :-)
Tom
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