It's interesting to me that so many people have found Swing slow, while
my experience has been opposite (I wonder if I have something set up
differently on my system or something...). I do see how it can be slower
than AWT, since it doesn't use any native peers. Swing's slow
performance can be attributed to the fact that Swing does its own
drawing, unlike AWT which calls Motif routines to create the widgets.
I do agree, though, that there should be a choice of AWT peering
implementations for Unix and Unix-like systems, since there are so many
widget sets available.
--Jeff
Jonathan Mark Brooks wrote:
>
> I suspect that they didn't get the point. What people are asking for is
> that the graphical elements of java be implemented with GTK+ rather than
> Motif or some other platform specific GUI kit (GTK exists for win32 now as
> well...). Even Swing must at some level call on GUI elements that are
> coded not with Java but with a lower-level graphics library.
>
> Besides, Swing is still, well, SLOW. Especially on Linux. I have a
> Cel400 w/128meg, so it shouldn't be, but it is.
>
--
Jeff Galyan
http://www.anamorphic.com
http://www.sun.com
jeffrey dot galyan at sun dot com
talisman at anamorphic dot com
Sun Certified Java(TM) Programmer
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