On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:43, Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 11:38, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> > I looked at wxwindows recently. I'm not a GUI programmer, and I found it to be
> > just plain nasty - too much like MFC. Though if you have other toolkit experience
> > it probably isn't so bad. The biggest thing that it lacked was a visual forms
> > editor.
> > I ended up choosing FLTK for my project because it has a nice editor, and is
> > lightweight & easy to use. It doesn't do anything fancy like provde hooks to a
> > sql DB though.
>
> It's relevant. I'm wondering why people haven't considered Java. There's
> not a lot to beat it when you want to write a program that'll work on
> Windows and Linux. Or even my PDA.
Portability at a price.
* Swing is... odd under all systems, and not a very pleasant
toolkit.
* Startup times for the JVM are very high compared to other
systems.
* Java is not a nice language to prototype in, compared to Python,
PHP, Perl, TCL.
* Anonymous Inner Classes.
Often you can get a better solution using C and a portable toolkit like
GTk+ (with the right theme under Windows).
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Michael JasonSmith http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~mpj17/
