From owner-freebsd-java Tue Feb 17 12:11:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA11090 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:11:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11059 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 12:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kelly@plutotech.com) Received: from plutotech.com (tampopo.plutotech.com [206.168.67.161]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23128; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:11:43 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <34E9EEFE.D24DAA09@plutotech.com> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:11:42 -0700 From: Sean Kelly Organization: Pluto Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Capell CC: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sunsoft swing classes References: <34E9EBD7.3DDB6BE8@value.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Swing seems to work OK, but > there are huge differences in appearence between Win32 and Motif > components, so much that they don't seem to be the same components at > all. That's part of the point of Swing: you get a standard look-and-feel no matter what platform you're using. Although the goals of the AWT are noble, it turns out for some applications that a native look-and-feel from platform to platform works out to be sub-optimal. Swing applications look the same from platform to platform. Depending on the application and the environment, that's better. (Consider an enterprise with many different desktop clients and a company-wide application. Supporting that with manuals and tech support is much easier if the programs looks the same on Wendy's Mac as it does Carl's UNIX system and Lisa's Windows box.) (Of course, in Swing you can change the look-and-feel at run time. :-) --Sean PS: And it's entirely possible I missed the point you were trying to make. If so, sorry! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message