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On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:18:17PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: > Bryce McKinlay wrote: > > Classpath's Swing implementation should not neccessarily be limited to > > using the same L&F across platforms. Since Swing was designed for > > pluggable look & feels, there is no reason why native toolkits can't be > > used to implement Swing, just like SwingWT and Apple's Swing > > implementation on OS X. > Chris wrote: > Note, I'm not saying I disagree with the idea of SwingWT etc. Swing was > largely introduced because of user concerns with the existing AWT: on > the target machines at the time, it was slow, and there were doubts as > to its memory consumption and scalability as well. Nowadays the typical > machine is that much faster, and these perceived problems with > natively-implemented GUI (including AWT) have disappeared. Agreed to both! SwingWT was more about getting something working now. When I looked at things, the Classpath progress was extremely slow and I set a target of my Swing app working natively across platforms in 3 months (which I did manage in the end). There seems to have been a real spurt in development in the last 6 months and the Classpath stuff seems to have really come on. If native is the direction the Classpath Swing is going, then I'd really like to help out - I imagine there is a load of useful code in SwingWT that could be reused and I have quite a bit of experience in the UI arena. Rob -- ===================================================== Robin Rawson-Tetley Animal Shelter Manager (http://sheltermanager.sf.net) SwingWT (http://swingwt.sf.net) I prefer encrypted email. Download my public key at: http://rawsontetley.ath.cx/sfpk.asc
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