George Ugarte wrote:
>I just need an opinion on what would be better to use - Swing or SWT on OS
>X? Or maybe I should ask - what do you guys use to build your GUI on OS X?
Why would you assume that one is unequivocally better than the other?
Why would you assume that "better" can be unambiguously defined?
There are so many variables implicit in your question that I don't know how
to begin to answer it except with sweeping generalities...
Swing is built into every Mac OS X install, because J2SE is built-in. SWT
is an add-on, which you must somehow supply or ensure is present.
SWT graphics performance on Mac OS X is not as uniformly good as Swing. To
some extent, this depends on what components you use and what you deploy
on, as well as your interpretation of "uniformly good" (i.e. some Swing
performance really sucks, too).
The above refers ONLY to Mac OS X, and ONLY on PowerPC Macs. The situation
is different on other platforms. In particular, performance and deployment
issues are markedly different on Windows.
And I have no idea what the relative performance looks like on the Intel
iMac and MacBook, so "better" today may have a very different outcome in 3
mos, 6 mos, or a year.
Finally, assuming perfect equality in all other areas, "better" might mean
what you have more experience with, or even what you want to obtain
experience with. Only you can evaluate those criteria.
-- GG
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