New SWT port

The below stuff is all very old and no one seems to work on it. At ​http://github.com/bitwiseworks you will find a new SWT port. bww bitwiseworks GmbH is actively porting it right now.

Welcome to SWT project homepage

This project aims to port the Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit to OS/2 and eComStation.

"SWT is an open source widget toolkit for Java designed to provide efficient, portable access to the user-interface facilities of the operating systems on which it is implemented."

People

• Lee W. Riemenschneider (not active)
• Leonardo Pino
• Dmitry A. Kuminov (not active)

How to proceed

• Collect information on missing controls in SWT v2.01
• Collect information on custom controls available already.
• Using the ControlExample complete the missing control implementation.
• Fix bugs
• Indetify missing controls, or features on existing controls.
• Fix the problems with the Open Watcom branch.
• Finish the implementation of the loader.

Sub Projects

• Netlabs.org Custom control set
  • Let coders create custom controls on basis of things we miss right now
  • Define criteria for controls to make small projects out of them

• SWT Port
  • With the control in the first project finish the port

Resources

• APIEX01.DLL from eComStation ( can be opensourced, code is owned by Serenity)
  • Contains a.o. Tree view control
• Sample code from OS/2 Developer
  • Magazines available as hard copy with Adrian or Bart
  • ​http://greyghost.dyndns.org/pccbbs/os2_coding/
• Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT)
  • SWT is part of the Eclipse Platform Components
  • ​http://www.eclipse.org/swt/
  • Information about the CVS access of the main SWT development line can be found at the Eclipse Wiki
    ​http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/CVS_Howto
  • Developer's blog ​http://os2advocacy.blogspot.com/