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SWT/Plan3.7
Contents
Introduction
This page contains blue sky thinking about the kind of things we would like to see in SWT's immediate future. This is a place to collect ideas - it does not represent a commitment to implement the ideas.
Theme Drawing API
- Provide an API to draw operating system themed controls and parts of controls.
Native Controls
- Add more native controls to SWT such as Header and HeaderItem, native tool bar support for the Macintosh and more.
- Investigate custom draw for controls other than tables and trees.
Images
- Add new API to give more control to the way images are saved, i.e. jpeg quality, dpi, etc.
- Add new API to allow storing an image in parts (tiles) for faster rendering of very large images.
- Support writing multi-page TIFF to allow tiled images to be stored as tiles.
- Ensure that any image can be saved in any format on any platform.
Printing
- Add new API to handle more printer options.
StyledText Improvements
- Investigate a link style
Performance
- Investigate performance improvements on all platforms.
- Investigate lightweight monitoring and tracing tool [1] to find slow code and problem areas in big applications.
E4 / Eclipse Web
- Investigate SWT in a Browser
- complete Flex and Dojo port (??), implement Silverlight port
- investigate SproutCore as a platform
- investigate and/or implement a JCL (Java Class Library) for the browser
- implement API to resolve desktop and web (Display.run(), async image loading ...)
- implement API to animate layouts
- implement API for async dialogs
- Animation and Effects API