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  3. December 2007

Re: WDSC on Mac

From: David Gibbs

Joe Pluta wrote:
Also, one minor quibble: WDSC uses the Eclipse SWT for its user
interface,
so it will never be "pure Java". Unlike Swing, which is Java's standard
UI,
SWT requires a native library on every platform, and so there are
sometimes
compatibility issues. For example, SWT does not work well at all with
64-bit Windows.

True ... but there's a SWT implementation available for most popular
platforms (OSX included).

OSX Carbon works quite well. OSX Cocoa not quite so well. Of course, I'm
not a Mac guy, so I don't know what that means I the real world, but I do
know that there are always Cocoa issues in the SWT bug reports.


I'm very surprised that it doesn't work well with 64 bit Windows.

Don't be. Lots of things don't work in 64-bit Windows. Lots of drivers
simply don't exist, and many of the vendors don't seem particularly
interested to keep up.

Joe


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