Re: [platform-swt-dev] Mac port: Status Update

[Maurice Parker <maurice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

On 12/7/01 9:07 AM, "Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Maurice,
> 
> I do not know if this will help you at all, but have you seen that Apple
> recently updated all of their documentation that is on ADC?  Supposedly, it
> is much more complete that it has been in the past.
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/CocoaTopics.html

They are much better, but I still haven't found the fix yet.
 
> They also issued a new release of the Developer Tools.

They got pulled before I got a chance to get to them.  They're supposed to
go back up later this week.  I doubt that they contain an update to the
JavaBridge, but hopefully an updated Project Builder can make out lives more
livable until we can self-host.

> 
> Based on what you have done so far, do you think it would be at all
> feasible to do the port in Cocoa using Objective-C instead of Java, or
> would it have the same problems you have been facing?  In other words, are

I would anticipate even more problems with trying to anything on the
"interesting" on the native side.  Steve Northover wrote a really good
article on that subject:

http://www.eclipsecorner.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.html

> the complications in Cocoa itself, or in the Javabridge Apple has provided
> for Cocoa?

I'm pretty sure it's either something that I'm doing or it is a problem with
the JavaBridge.  The actual Cocoa API's are very stable and the problem that
I am experiencing with the Notification Center would render the entire API
unusable even for Obj-C (as it has for me on the Java side) if it existed in
the actual Notification Center.

-Maurice