On 5/18/05, Alex Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is no-one using SWT[1]? Supposed to be a big improvement over AWT, > > especially in terms of porting[2]. Allegedly used in embedded systems > > because of small size and efficiency, and can be used as the peer > > layer of an AWT implementation. Seems to me it would map extremely > > well onto DirectFB. > > > Yeah... I also get the similar idea... but the problem is SWT still not > in the standard library ...most applications > in the world ( that I know of ) are still using normal AWT ... Of couse > just by looking at eclipse we can see > how well SWT is ...but which way to choose... or may be let the directfb > extension work for the SWT project?
I have not worked with desktop Java apps since the SGI days, anyway, as I understood, the big benefit of SWT is the implementation using native widgets, and that leads to fast performance, especially compared with Swing. In the case of DirectFB, Swing is out of the question, and AWT might be limited, but it's still a more used standard compared with SWT. Someone who knows more about J2SE and its toolbox definitions, especially J2SE Embedded, if the DirectFB port corresponds to any of those profiles, that would be neat, as embedded systems developers tend to follow such standard profiles. Anyway, any Java implementation on top of DirectFB (and LiTE) is great. --Kent -- Something, Anything! _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
