>> I'd like to know what does he mean with "no events".

in Delphi you could do stuff like:

sendButton.onClick = ClickHandlerMethod



I don't even want to think about what the equivalent is in Java.

Basically, you need function pointers.



On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Fabrizio Giudici
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:41:57 +0200, Casper Bang <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 6:46:05 PM UTC+2, phil swenson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I remember being very disappointed when I first looked at Java for
>>> writing desktop UIs.  It was a huge step backwards from all the
>>> lessons learned from Delphi and VB in the 90s.  No properties, no
>>> events,  layout hell, overly complicated APIs.
>>>
>>
>> And yet, the hardcore Java developer will defend it vigorously.
>
>
> This is not true as most Java developers know that Swing is pretty old. BTW,
> getting back to the original Phil's statement, apart from the fact that you
> can have properties in the language with an annotation processor, I'd like
> to know what does he mean with "no events". One of the problems of Swing is
> perhaps that there are too many (kinds of) events.
>
>
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