From owner-freebsd-java Fri Mar 1 8:20:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from zaphod.euronet.nl (zaphod.euronet.nl [194.134.128.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CEF37B402 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:20:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ernst@localhost) by zaphod.euronet.nl (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g21GIf244017; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:18:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ernst) Message-Id: <200203011618.g21GIf244017@zaphod.euronet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ernst de Haan To: j mckitrick , "Koster, K.J." Subject: Re: Ugrade from linux-jdk to native Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:18:41 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FDA3DC@l04.research.kpn.com> <20020301160608.D83735@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20020301160608.D83735@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org See: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-SWT-Design-1/SWT-Design-1.html Ernst On Friday 01 March 2002 17:06, j mckitrick wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:01:43PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > | Hello Jonathon, > | > | > Hotspot seems great, and will help the perfomance issue for sure. But > | > isn't there an ongoing debate about look-and-feel, and the AWT vs the > | > SWT? > | > | SWT? If you mean Swing; use Swing, not AWT. It's much better. > | > | What look 'n feel issues are you referring to? > > I was reading javaworld recently (IIRC) and apparently there are issues > with Swing looking so different from native platform GUIs. So, there > is another toolkit, SWT, or Standard (Window|Widget) Toolkit. IIUC, it > is supposed to offer the power and flexibility of Swing with the look > and feel of the native application, even using JNI where possible to > do so. I'm just repeating what I read, so maybe I need to do some more > digging. But I'm under the impression that some developers don't like > the look and feel of Swing, and apparently the LookAndFeel API isn't > enough to fix it. Let me see what I can dig up. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message -- Ernst de Haan EuroNet Internet B.V. "Come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message