SWT compatibility

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Steven J Sobol

I recently got tired of NetBeans' dog-slow performance and memory leaks
(was able to deal with the performance by turning off some plugins I didn't
need, but the memory leaks are horrendous and unacceptable for what is
supposed to be a polished product). I've found Eclipse to be a great
alternative and am looking at IBM's Standard Widget Toolkit as an
alternative to Swing. IMHO the biggest win comes from using native OS
widgets where possible. But that begs the question of which platforms the
SWT runs on. I know it'll run on Windows and I'm using it right now on a
Fedora Linux box, but I'd like to use something that will at least run on:

--win32
--Linux/x86
--FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD
--Mac OS X
--Earlier versions of Mac OS (9, at the very least, maybe 8)

Does SWT run on (at least) those platforms?
 
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Brion Vibber

Steven said:
--win32
--Linux/x86
--FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD
--Mac OS X
--Earlier versions of Mac OS (9, at the very least, maybe 8)

Does SWT run on (at least) those platforms?

SWT does not run on Mac OS 8/9. You'd also be limited to Java 1.1.8 there.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
 
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Steven J Sobol

Brion Vibber said:
SWT does not run on Mac OS 8/9. You'd also be limited to Java 1.1.8 there.

So it does run on Mac OS X, then? (If I can't run Java2, I don't want to
even bother with 9 or 8...)
 
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Brion Vibber

Steven said:
So it does run on Mac OS X, then? (If I can't run Java2, I don't want to
even bother with 9 or 8...)

Runs fine on Mac OS X, with some caveats. (Use 'java_swt' instead of
'java' launcher; can't mix SWT with Swing/AWT due to duelling event loops.)

If you haven't already, you should check the FAQ and documentation.
www.eclipse.org is fiendishly difficult to navigate; the SWT stuff is
hiding here:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/dev.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
 
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Steven J Sobol

Brion Vibber said:
Runs fine on Mac OS X
Thanks

If you haven't already, you should check the FAQ and documentation.

I've found the SWT javadocs online and am using that reference in concert
with Eclipse's online help. I think I'm getting along pretty well.

Thanks to everyone who replied.
 

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