Hi, There's a now a defined EOL for SWT-Gtk2 announced [1]. The last SWT Release supporting Gtk2 is 2018-09! Starting with 2018-12 SWT there will be no more Gtk2 support!
Tom [1]https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cross-project-issues-dev/msg15783.html On 06.06.18 11:12, Tom Schindl wrote: > Hi, > > Yes. FXCanvas from JavaFX8 won't work anymore once SWT-Gtk2 is gone. > > The discussion on this currently happens at [platform-dev] mailing list > - see https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-dev/ - There's no > timeframe mentionned yet by the SWT-Team but sooner or later that will > happen. > > Tom > > On 06.06.18 11:03, Thorsten Fischer wrote: >> Hello Tom, >> >> does that mean that FXCanvas won't work with upcoming Eclipse versions >> and JavaFX8? >> >> Do you know in which timeframe/release that my occur? Is that issue >> discussed in the eclipse bugtracker somewhere? I couldn't find it by >> searching for "gtk4". >> >> Kind regards, >> Thorsten >> >> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 06. Juni 2018 um 10:20 Uhr >> *Von:* "Tom Schindl" <tom.schi...@bestsolution.at> >> *An:* "openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net Mailing" <openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net> >> *Betreff:* Chance of Backporting Gtk3 Support to JavaFX 8 >> Hi, >> >> Eclipse SWT developers are about to remove Gtk2-SWT port once they start >> developing towards support for Gtk4. >> >> This means there's no SWT-FX-Integration layer anymore for JavaFX8 >> because it is linked to Gtk2. >> >> I know JavaFX-8 is not the new and shining thing because everyone wants >> to use modules and Java 11 but there are many applications who can not >> easily to Java 9+. >> >> Is there any chance the Gtk3 changes from JavaFX-9 get backported to >> JavaFX-8? >> >> Tom
