Re: [CASHeW-s-Editor] Free implementation of Swing....

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:07:15PM -0000, Barry Norton wrote:
> 
> Thought so - sounds like a nightmare to me!
> 
> (Call me skeptical...)
> 
> Barry
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> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 01:07 +0000, Ravish Bhagdev wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This looks interesting http://swingwt.sourceforge.net/  .
> > >
> > > It claims to be free implementation of Swing and AWT and uses SWT
> > itself.
> > >
> > > - Ravish
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> > 
> > Yes, it's basically just a wrapper around SWT that uses it to provide
> > the Swing classes.  The idea is that you can simply replace
> > "javax.swing" with the top-level namespace from this and get a working
> > Swing implementation using SWT.
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No, I pretty much agree with you there.  The two have very different design
strategies, and it would be a nightmare trying to couple the two.  I don't
know how well SwingWT works, but it is definately still missing some
aspects of the Swing hierarchy, especially now 1.5 has been released.

Cheers,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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