I have no problem with that.

How is that Pointer API supposed to be used?

cya
Robert

Sven de Marothy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-22 at 22:53 +0200, Robert Schuster wrote:
> 
> 
>>The way its done now is pretty simple and there is much room for enhancement.
>>However I want to have some feedback on the current state because I am new to
>>Gdk/Gtk+ and Xlib/XRandR programming and had to work myself into the goodness 
>>of
>>Classpath' "Magical NSA API" ... ;)
> 
> 
> I'm not sure we should use the NSA stuff for new code. I personally
> don't think it's a very good solution. It obfuscates where the actual
> data is at behind an undocumented and unintuitive set of macros. It also
> makes it harder to see what native data structures the java classes map
> to. It's one of the things that makes understanding and working on the
> Gtk peers more difficult. The Pointer/Pointer32/Pointer64 classes also
> do their job in contributing. 
> 
> Storing the native pointer as a simple long field works just fine on any
> platform. I don't see the point of not Keeping It Simple.
> 
> /Sven
> 
> 
> 

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