Re: [JGIT PATCH 0/3] Request for help: graph-based UI

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 25, 2009, 23:20 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0907260119140.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090725205936.GF11191@spearce.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:

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> Douglas Campos <douglas@theros.info> 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.

Of course, the Graph GUI is Swing...

But I would definitely welcome if somebody made the rendering more modular, to allow for an SWT backend.

In fact, I think I welcome almost everything people contribute to the Graph GUI project.

Ciao, Dscho