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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:06:45 -0600
From:      "Adam W. Dace" <awd@fastparts.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Cc:        Sean Kelly <kelly@plutotech.com>, Adam Capell <acapell@value.net>, java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sunsoft swing classes
Message-ID:  <34EA1805.558724CB@fastparts.com>
References:  <34E9EBD7.3DDB6BE8@value.net> <34E9EEFE.D24DAA09@plutotech.com> <199802172134.OAA29842@mt.sri.com> <34EA04D4.5608730A@plutotech.com> <199802172147.OAA29926@mt.sri.com>

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Nate Williams wrote:

> > Do they achieve this by using the native widgets or by drawing things
> > differently depending on the platform?
> 
> Differently.  They plug a different 'look and feel' into the system.
> Note, you can provide provide your own 'native' look and feel and use it
> on all the systems, but it no longers comes that way out of the box.

Interesting!  Don't mind me chiming in(unfortunately I don't have the
time right now to really contribute to the FBSD port of java, but keep
it brewing!), but I didn't realize this was the case under Unix.

That's okay though. It sounds to me like it's time for someone to setup
a .org domain, then start shipping GPL'ed (can lawyers sue an
organization that doesn't make any money?) pluggable Look'n'Feel modules
that look -exactly- like Windows95, MacOS, NextStep(why not?), etc.

I'm sure someone will find a way around this hangup sooner or later.
Heck, if they don't, I'd be up to cloning a Look'n'Feel once the 1.2 API
settles down...

Still in the world of JDK 1.1.x,

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