Support for Apple Extensions (original) (raw)

Christopher Brown christopherbrown06 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 5 03:03:09 PDT 2013

Hello,

It would be nice to maintain (for existing applications) the old APIs, and provide a more cross-platform way to use thereafter (which would avoid reflection hacks for new code).

Some inspiration for a standard cross-platform API can be found in the Eclipse SWT APIs, for example : http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet348.java http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet354.java

These examples are related to the Mac menu bar, there are other system-specific integration points that are handled nicely to. It's similar to feature-testing in java.awt.Desktop (or feature availability testing in modern browsers from JavaScript).

-- Christopher

On 5 July 2013 11:04, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:

On 05/07/2013 09:53, Paul Taylor wrote:

This was discussed this in some detail last Autumn, and we were assured that support would be continued, and on a postive note from my own experience Ive found everything I need does all work on the 1.7.040ea-b291 release. Alan I would suggest you discuss this with the oracle developers who were looking at this back then. At the time I also requested it should be properly documented but the response on that was pretty divided. I think the right thing is to understand which of these com.apple APIs are commonly used as it may may sense to add standard APIs for some of these cases. If you links to the discussion from "last Autumn" that would be useful. -Alan

More information about the macosx-port-dev mailing list