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 > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald - [email protected] - http://twitter.com/sophistifunk - http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ -- 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.
