Re: [rgui-dev] RE: Backend Debouch

[Laurent Julliard]

Tom Sawyer wrote:
>

> having said that, i want to point out that GUtopIa can't simply borrow 
> SWT's code. to do so would mean dumping the bindings that already exist
> for interfacing ruby to gtk, win32, and coco, and stealing the SWT C
> code which it designed for use with JNI and reworking it --it would
> actually end up being more work. but SWT has some good notions toward
> the overall design and i am attemtping to emulate those where they
> apply.
>
> ~tom

Tom,

Actually when the same kind of discussion was raging on the Rouge 
mailing list and after spending several days in the low level C code of 
SWT , I remember that I came to the exact same conclusion. The guy in 
SWT have done a remarkable job and the best approach would probably to 
write a sort of C-JNI to C-Ruby translator to leverage their work. This 
tool go do 95% of the job and then things could be finalized by hand.

Laurent


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