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Re: [science-pmc] SWTChart
Hi Christopher,

maybe, it's a flag in Eclipse or Mac, which needs to be set. Anyhow, most of my users are Windows centric, but who knows when this changes.
Thanks also for your PtPlot idea. Unfortunately, this means, that I would have to completely re-write my chart extensions. So, long story short: I can't just move away from SWT.
I'll definitively ask people at the EclipseCon if they're facing the same problems. Hopefully, there is a solution.


Best,
Philip

Am 28.09.2017 um 15:36 schrieb Christopher Brooks:

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 


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iCyPhy/Ptolemy/TerraSwarm
University of California, Berkeley
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