[jboss-as7-dev] birth of "console ui" in eclipse

[Max Andersen]

For this I don't see it worth it. 

Only sensible usage ive seen of it when my eclipse "ported" netbeans swing editor to eclipse. 

That would be way to complex to
Port natively and would need swing anyway for rendering. 

/max (sent from my phone)


On 10/02/2012, at 20.27, Rob Cernich <rcernich at redhat.com> wrote:

>> BTW, is it impossible to run Swing code from inside Eclipse?
> 
> I believe it's possible, but I don't think it's very pretty.  The biggest problem is that the underlying windowing systems are very different between the two: SWT rides the OS, while Swing provides its own.  All SWT controls are either native controls or built using native controls.
> 
> That said, I've never attempted this, never researched and never seen it done.  (I don't get out much though. ;) )
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