I'd have to go along with Brad on this, after using the Swing text API.
I ended up having to subclass lots of stuff, while reading the java sources
to find out what the superclasses were up to.
Nick
Brad Pepers wrote:
> Rachit Siamwalla wrote:
> >
> > > Agreed, Swing JFC is one of the best API design ever. Java 2D/ DnD is excellent
> > > and JMF appears to be well though out. I await Java Sound with baited breath.
> > >
> >
> > I don't 100% agree with the comment about JFC. Some things in JFC are
> > well written like the JTree and the JTable and the Text components. But
> > the rest seem slapped together and hard to customize without creating
> > your own components. Another thing is it is scary how slow they seem to
> > fix problems. I heard from someone who went to JavaOne last year that
> > they have 10 people devoted to Swing. How long has JFC came out? A lot
> > of repeatable problems have not been fixed. This is amazingly bad. What
> > have they been doing? The interface hasn't changed significantly. All
> > there is to do is fix thier bugs. Oh well...
>
> I can't even go that far since JTable has its own problems. Like you
> mentioned its hard to customize without creating your own component and
> its also almost useless for data entry. In general the whole thing is
> missing so much basical functionality that you end up spending all your
> time subclassing their components. Little things like the simplest of
> data validation (limiting the number of characters entered for instance)
> require you to write code when it should be basic functionality of the
> component.
>
> I think they've had to spend *way* too much time on getting the whole
> switchable look and feel working and in doing so have left out basic
> functionality. Its also so complicated its hard to subclass and get
> control of the behaviour when you need to (and I also suspect this is
> the source of the bugs and why they can't fix them). They should have
> just worked on a light weight set of components with a rich set of
> functionality and a nice look and feel. AWT is bad because it relies
> on the underlying graphics lib which creates subtle differences in
> functionality between operating systems but JFC seems to be just as bad
> by trying to cater to everyone they have made a system not very good
> for anyone.
>
> If its not obvious, I've been working with Swing for a while now and had
> nothing but frustration. 8^)
>
> Rant mode off.
>
> Are there other options out there?
>
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