Yep I can agree with this. If you want to restrict the input of a JTextField
to digits or uppercase characters. I am surprised that only 10 developers
are committed to this project if that is true, but you can't throw people at a
complex project such as swing. In any case I thought this was joint
collaboration between Sun and Netscape (remember the IFC In The Nutshell).
Alex do reckon Netscape's IFC was a better GUI toolkit in terms of design.
I think that Swing developer have got their head down coding with the attitude
"If there a problems it will fixed in the next release, whenever that is,
but in the next release there are even more problems, and so on. You get the
picture." This is kind of worrying when you think of the process of software
development. It sounds to be that open source is not enough. There has to be
someway of sending in patches to Sun (and err Netscape) to get bugs fix and
more developer (internal) documentation is needed. I am thinking in terms of
linux kernel development but with the same model applied to Swing. More input
and contribution and patches from external developer community is a requirement,
otherwise the developers have an interest in Swing this year, could be gone
next year, and that is my warning to Sun.
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> > 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...
>
> -rchit
>
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