Re: Cocoa Java vs Swing Java classes
Re: Cocoa Java vs Swing Java classes
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Java vs Swing Java classes
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 16:21:09 +0200
On Sunday, October 14, 2001, at 04:06 , David Findley wrote:
True, an application written with Swing looks a lot like a Cocoa
application (when run on the Mac), but with Swing you have to write a
_lot_ more code to get it to act the same.
Anyway, you'll notice that there's no Cut, Copy or Paste, or Undo, or
Redo, or Save (yet). This is because Swing is an "appearance" layer, not
a "behavior" layer, and does not provide a foundation for those items.
There's no "appkit" in Swing. You really are on your own there. The
menus don't enable properly yet (for the most part).
Hey, that reminds me of Classic Mac OS/Carbon, it's exactly the same there.
Luckily, there are frameworks like Powerplant that give you that
functionality. Nothing like that for Java/Swing?
andy
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