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Re: JavaClient, SWT, Eclipse and WO



At 07:00 PM 24/11/2003 -0500, ming fang wrote:
>Swing IS the GUI Framework of choice.
>
Only if your choices are between Swing, Swing, and the odious Awful
Windowing Toolkit.  Swing is a monument to standardized bad design choices.
 If anyone other that Sun had introduced it, it would have died a well
deserved death long ago.  The only good thing about Swing is that it has
retarded the growth of Java.  :-)


>SWT is Windows favored, anti-Java, ant-crossplatform
>
Last I looked it was cross platform...  And if the Sun APIs are the
pinnacle of Java-ness then being Anti-Jave looks pretty good to me.


Chuck


>On Nov 24, 2003, at 5:17 PM, DevReseune wrote:
>
>> Hi (2),
>>
>> If you don't know Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org), visit their web 
>> site. It's a very nice alternative to XCode. XCode isn't a nice 
>> solution for WO. But, it isn't the subject of this email.
>>
>> In Java client, Apple uses Swing, the worst java solution for me. SWT, 
>> the UI framework of Eclipse, is a good cross-platform solution. For 
>> example, with Swing, an open panel is the same in all platforms. But 
>> wouldn't you like rather to use the Cocoa open panel in MacOS and the 
>> XP panel in Windows?
>>
>> I want to tell to Apple that SWT is a better solution for java client, 
>> that Eclipse is better than XCode for WO. It would be nice if I won't 
>> be alone to say that.
>>
>> Frederic
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 >JavaClient, SWT, Eclipse and WO (From: DevReseune <email@hidden>)
 >Re: JavaClient, SWT, Eclipse and WO (From: ming fang <email@hidden>)



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