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RE: [platform-swt-dev] SWTToolkit as AWT Peers 
Another thing to add about 1.1 is that this implementation was targeted 
towards the embedded space, and as such was implemented to PersonalJava 
spec rather than J2SE. PersonalJava calls for 1.1 level API and features. 


--Andrew





"David Whiteman/RAL/OTI" <David_Whiteman@xxxxxxx>
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Yes, it's mostly just 1.1.  It doesn't technically use the *Peer classes 
to implement the native implementation.  SWT logically serves as a peer 
layer, but you don't get anything SWT-related if you call getPeer() on a 
Component in BBAWT; that's one of the noted deviations.  If you really 
need SWT to implement the Peer interface, then you'd have to roll your 
own.  However, I think that's an implementation detail that is not 
necessary for the Eclipse integration goals you're trying to achieve, if I 
understand you correctly.  Probably the best test would be for you to run 
a lot of your favorite apps and snippets in our AWT to see if it runs your 
code as you expect - if it doesn't, we'd love to hear about it. 

Probably the biggest areas our AWT deviates from the 1.2 spec are in 2D 
graphics and printing, partly because a lot of that isn't currently (or 
wasn't previously) available in SWT for all platforms that we were 
interested in.  Also, Swing kind of limps along on BBAWT (and only Swing 
1.1.x works at all). 

Regards, 
David 
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David Whiteman
OTI Raleigh
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"Scott Stanchfield" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Isn't the personal config stuff only AWT v1.1, though? There were a ton of 
changes to how the peers are managed in 1.2 and beyond... 
  
Or did I misunderstand something? 
-- Scott

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