rsksmiles wrote: > Hello and happy new year to one and all. > > Just had a visit from a colleague who wants to include part of my > piccolo2d application in an eclipse rcp based application. As eclipse > rcp is swt/jface based I need to have an idea of how much work is > involved in porting to swt.
My experience with piccolo2d-swt has been only enough to get the examples working. The basic building blocks are there, but note that the swt package is more of a parallel implementation, not an extension. For example PSWTText extends PNode but not PText. There is an open issue with patches to SWT that unfortunately I have been slow to apply Provide advanced graphical options under SWT http://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/issues/detail?id=189 and another SWT issue that no one has been able to look at yet PSWTText not respecting bounds.x and bounds.y in painting http://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/issues/detail?id=219 > My swing app uses a PSwingCanvas and a little bit of drag and drop. Is > it a non-trivial task to migrate to the swt version? I wonder whether > I can just reuse code as is in the swingcanvas and "embed" the swing > component. Heard this is possible but not seen it done. I don't know if this would be possible. > Is there a list of what is available in the different version of > piccolo2d: swt and swing? Not that I know of, sorry. michael -- Piccolo2D Developers Group: http://groups.google.com/group/piccolo2d-dev?hl=en
