On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi there !
>
>
> Is there anyone in here who has experience with Java look & feel which look
> like native application for their respective operation system ?
>
> A friend asked whether I knew such a library and answered maybe Synthetica
> is what he was looking for.
>
> I've had a half-disgusted answer that this was definitly NOT native. Look
> what they did to menu on MacOS ! It's inside the window as for Windows ! :-)
>
>
> So, can I reassure my friend there actually is something like that for Java
> somewhere ?
>

There is, it's called SWT <http://www.eclipse.org/swt/> (and there is a
higher order library built on top of SWT called
JFace<http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/JFace>
).

Trying to write a GUI that looks native on Swing will bring you nothing but
endless frustration.

-- 
Cédric

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