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Oh SWT Why do I Hate Thee So...
OK so here is another reason to hate SWT...The problems is the way the thread models mesh together. Since SWT is a thin vaneer over the native GUI widget set (Carbon on the Mac, others on other platforms) it uses the native event thread model. AWT is much more abstract and has its own event thread model. These two models clash. There is a hack possible on the Sun JDK that makes the two play together. To my knowledge no one has found such a hack on the Carbon yet...