On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 12:09, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > 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.
Swing ain't the only fish. > * Startup times for the JVM are very high compared to other > systems. But this doesn't seem to be a problem when a machine si just powered up into the app in the morning and shut down at night, if ever. > * Java is not a nice language to prototype in, compared to Python, > PHP, Perl, TCL. Matter of preference, I think. > * Anonymous Inner Classes. Eh? Never used those in Java before. World hasn't collapsed yet... > Often you can get a better solution using C and a portable toolkit like > GTk+ (with the right theme under Windows). Yeah, but Java is a heck of a lot easier to debug these days with tools like the Netbeans IDE/Debugger. Vik :v)
