What is the scope of this framework?
Creating UI's...
# compose-desktopu
ursus
02/05/2023, 4:29 AMWhat is the scope of this framework?
Creating UI's with prior jetpack compose knowledge has been a breeze,
but say I want to read user location (i.e. a macos native api), how would I do that?
Is it out of the scope? Or should I look for some jvm library which provides that?
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Alexander Maryanovsky
02/05/2023, 5:12 AMYes and yes.
Alexander Maryanovsky
02/05/2023, 5:16 AMWe may provide, in the future, wrappers for commonly used native APIs that aren’t UI, but currently there are no such plans.
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ursus
02/05/2023, 12:09 PMIf I might ask, how does one even do that? Say I want the macos location, should I look for a C api, and expose that to java via JNI?
What about swift? Is there a mechanism to bridge those to jvm world?
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mikehearn
02/15/2023, 1:19 PMYes, or use JNA or equivalent. But for that thing specifically there is
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Alexander Maryanovsky
02/15/2023, 3:44 PMI think he meant physical, geographical, location. But who knows…
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mikehearn
02/15/2023, 3:44 PMAh you're right, that's a more likely interpretation.
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ursus
02/15/2023, 4:25 PMyea gps location, i.e. some native api
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