Yes but AWT is as good as deprecated isn't it, I'm thinking applets and old event handlers now! My point is just that the JRE's mandated cross-platform UI never really panned out... you can still fire up a random Swing app on Mac and see a Windows/Linux style menu bar on top of the window, rather than at the top of the desktop. And why doesn't Google use it for Earth/PIcasa etc? They seem to agree that using native bindings is the best approach.
/Casper On Sep 9, 11:03 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Casper Bang <[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. ;-) > > > There may be bindings for multiple platforms, but it still represents > > a rejection of the ways sanctioned by Sun in not being vanilla Java. > > How so? AWT contains native bindings as well, SWT just uses them more wisely > (i.e. using native controls instead of emulating them, which is the main > reason why Swing was never found fit to develop credible desktop > applications). > > -- > Cédric -- 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.
