I had a look at Limewire again as I was interested in using a library it had (which turned out not to exist, but nevermind). The UI is now far more polished than the awful wreck I remember.
Ricky. -- Ricky Clarkson Java and Scala Programmer, AD Holdings +44 1928 706373 Skype: ricky_clarkson On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Christian Gruber <[email protected]> wrote: > Erm... SWT == cross platform UI bindings... with platform-specific > implementations. That it's not included in the JRE just means it's less > likely to be bloated and over-engineered. ;-) > > But I'm not sure how this makes your point. And Limewire was based on Swing > for a long time, as I recall, though I haven't used it in years. > > Or any flash application ever written. Or any web-app ever written except > for those which were browser-specific... oh wait... I guess that's still most > of them. (damn) > > Christian. > > On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Casper Bang wrote: > >> ...formerly known as Azureus. It uses SWT bindings, not part of the >> JRE so it is in fact the same UI philosophy as Mono uses. >> >> >> On Sep 9, 10:17 pm, Christian Gruber <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Vuse? >>> >>> On Sep 9, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Casper Bang wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>> With the CLI, .NET, and Mono this isn't the case at all. You can't run >>>>> C#/.NET software on C#/Mono and porting between the two is a big, big >>>>> deal. >>> >>>> Sure you can, the C# standards under ISO/ECMA does not specify a >>>> windowing toolkit, so it's technically wrong when you make that >>>> statement. It was not in Microsoft's interest and frankly, cross- >>>> platform UI layer is largely a pipe-dream. Have you seen any major >>>> successful applications apart from Java IDE's go this route? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
