Heh... You should write some iPhone code... [dealloc]'ing is all we do it
seems sometimes :)

On 21 September 2010 10:45, Augusto Sellhorn <[email protected]>wrote:

> The whole "look like native apps" was a big waste of time, as the
> trend has been for quite a while to create custom UIs. Nobody cares
> that their Flex apps don't look like native apps, or that Google Apps
> on your desktop look quite different from anything else you have. Sun
> chasing perfect platform fidelity was a waste of time.
>
> The irony to me is that Eclipse looks less like a native app to me
> than something like Netbeans. It's also a step back in UI programming,
> I mean, really the last time I had to deallocate color resources was
> when I was doing Xt programming for X. We're in 2010 now.
>
> Augusto
>
> On Sep 20, 4:49 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >  Well if they give JavaFX a *really* nice Java API so one can use it
> from
> > > Java as easily as Swing, then there's nothing more compelling about SWT
> due
> > > to this announcement.
> >
> > > SWT has no point over Swing at this point (vs. when it was originally
> > > created) unless you or your users are *really *hung up on widgets or
> fonts
> > > tracking the native platforms *perfectly*.  Some of us really and truly
> > > could care less.
> >
> > You probably mean "could not care less", otherwise you're agreeing with
> me
> > :-)
> >
> > A lot of people care about applications looking like the host OS they are
> > running in, and SWT/JFace/EclipseRCP is way ahead of Swing in that area.
> >
> > >   Just give us a decent UI that runs on any desktop OS without any
> extra
> > > native libraries, etc (which kills the notion of SWT immediately)
> >
> > How so? Swing uses native libraries as well (well, AWT does). They are
> just
> > implementing the UI at a different level than SWT.
> >
> > The whole "native libraries are evil" thing died more than ten years ago.
> >
> >  and a reasonable API (which Swing has in my book).  The rest of the
> Eclipse
> >
> > > RCP might be nice -- but it's "contaminated" by SWT for those who want
> no
> > > part of SWT.
> >
> > Sounds like a pretty arbitrary and emotional position, but whatever works
> > for you.
> >
> > --
> > Cédric
>
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