On 1/6/06, Erik Mattheis <email@hidden> wrote:
> In light of next week's rumored arrival of Intel Macs, I'm wondering
> about about the future of SWT on the Mac. As I understand it, SWT
> uses a lot of JNI and the Carbon framework. Everything I've heard
> about porting to Intel says Cocoa is a must.
Cocoa has a little better level of abstraction and a history of being
available on several different CPU / OS platforms but Carbon based
applications can still be made universal. Carbon isn't going away in
an fashion with Macintels.
You may want to review...
<http://developer.apple.com/transition/projectscope.html>
...and the other docs found on...
<http://developer.apple.com/transition/index.html?ht>
> Does this mean SWT will be using emulated code behind the scenes on Intel Macs?
It depends on if the native code libraries are compiled universal or not.
> Will it even run?
Again depends on how it is compiled, review...
<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1295.html>
> I don't use SWT in my own projects, but I do use Eclipse as my IDE of choice. Any thoughts?
Don't panic and keep you towel close at hand.
-Shawn
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