The new DWT2

Christopher Wright dhasenan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 21 12:58:25 PDT 2009


torhu wrote:
> On 21.03.2009 14:08, Christopher Wright wrote:
>> Frank Benoit wrote:
>>>  Now there is the new hg repository for DWT2.
>>>
>>>  DWT2 is like dwt-win/linux/addons, but the folders are organized in the
>>>  original directory structure of the Eclipse sources. This also means 
>>> the
>>>  packages are again like the original.
>>>
>>>      DWT.CENTER =>
>>>      SWT.CENTER
>>>
>>>      import dwt.widgets.Button; =>
>>>      import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
>>
>> Wow, that's like twelve extra characters. I did want to try this out,
>> but I already have gtkd, and that lets me just import gtk.Button.
>>
> 
> It's a bit annoying, but seems like the right thing to do.  I'll 
> probably just type it once for each file, then use my editor's 
> 'duplicate line' feature for the rest.  That's what I've been doing 
> already anyway.

It's well motivated from a development standpoint. I don't see what it 
contributes, otherwise.


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