Hi Philip,
I don't believe that I've run in to these problems using SWT
under MacOS, but they look rather serious.
I am affected by this bug: RCP application menu not shown
when launched from Eclipse on OS X 10.9 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=457921)
One possibility would be to port PtPlot, which is a lightweight
Swing-based Java plotter based on Xgraph. Edward Lee and I wrote
it in the early days of Java (first release October 31, 1997) and
use it as part of Ptolemy II today. Like SWTChart, PtPlot is small
and standalone, see https://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/java/ptplot/
I realize that this would be real work to do the port, and that
it would probably be faster/better to get SWTChart in to Eclipse,
but I wanted to put it out there.
Getting PtPlot through a full CQ would be fairly straightforward,
I would be happy to do so, first by getting it through the more
lightweight version and then by getting it through the full
version if there is interest in using it.
_Christopher
On 9/28/17 1:12 AM, Philip Wenig wrote:
Hi
folks,
recently, I had another conversation with Yoshitaka, the founder
of SWTChart.
He's interested to join the Eclipse Foundation, but he has limited
resources at the moment. My opinion is, that we can't force people
to publish a proposal.
So I would recommend that we wait until he's ready to do the step.
He knows that I will support him to write the proposal and to do
the administrative work.
Anyhow, I will improve my SWTChart extensions and will stay in
contact with him. I'll keep you updated.
I've also recognized that SWT works fine under Windows and Linux,
but Mac OS
X makes problems. Have you encountered the same problems?
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=366471
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=458872
Maybe, other Eclipse projects are affected by this problem too. I
would be happy to discuss this issue at the upcoming EclipseCon.
Best,
Philip
--
Christopher Brooks, PMP
Academic Program Manager
iCyPhy/Ptolemy/TerraSwarm
University of California, Berkeley
707.332.0670, cxh@xxxxxxxxxxxx, https://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cxh