AWT

Per Bothner per@bothner.com
Wed Aug 4 15:43:00 GMT 1999


Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com> writes:

> The chief characteristic of
> heavyweight widgets in the AWT is the native window associated with
> them, not whether the widget code is implemented in native code or Java.

The chief characteristic is that heavyweight components have a Peer
associated with them.  This Peer is typically implemented as a wrapper
around a widget (or gadget if you prefer) from some lower-level toolkit.
It is *not* necessarily a native window in the X sense, though that
may be what AWT on Motif gives you (I don't know).
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	--Per Bothner
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