Re: Java IDE for Swing: nib approach vs code generation?
Re: Java IDE for Swing: nib approach vs code generation?
- Subject: Re: Java IDE for Swing: nib approach vs code generation?
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:02:15 -0500
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 07:35 PM, Jonathan Hendry wrote:
On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 03:58 , Dave Yost wrote:
So my question is this: is there a Java IDE lurking out there (among
the dozens of Java IDEs) that uses Java serialization instead of code
generation to store UI structure data?
Well, some Ex-NeXTers once had a company called NetCode, which
developed an IB-like UI tool and an AppKit-like class library.
Netscape bought NetCode, the class library became Netscape's
IFC, and the IB-like tool disappeared. IFC was subsumed into
Swing, and I think much of it was tossed.
Actually, now that you mention it, I remember using the Netscape IFC in
an IB-like program Netscape released with the IFC (the name of which
unfortunately escapes me right now).
IIRC, you even used 'control-drag' to create connections in the
interface.
Brian
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