From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 20:59:36 GMT Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 0/3] Request for help: graph-based UI Message-ID: <20090725205936.GF11191@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: Douglas Campos wrote: > Just a question.. all graphic things that we implement in swing aren't > usable inside eclipse with swt-awt bridge? They should be usuable inside the SWT-AWT bridge, but that bridge is really dicey to get working right sometimes. I had a lot of trouble with it at my prior day-job and am happy I no longer have to deal with it. For the most part, SWT and AWT are similar enough in their rendering that its possible to build most of a layout algorithm to be rendering API agnostic, and then permit implementation of AWT and SWT backends. But that still is duplicated effort, vs. straightforward code reuse. -- Shawn.