Ha this is funny, I hear things like swing is horrible to design, from users that use wicket so html apps. I guess those dont design the webapps themselfs, because if i have to choose i would choose swing or swt over html/css any day.. I really hate css
For swing apps just have a good ui builder like windows builder or matisse. Windows builder also supports SWT With grouplayout making nice ui's that always looks good over multiply os'ses or jvms is pretty easy You could try to use JavaFX but i havent experiences with that. But it should be way easier to creaty flashy ui apps.. On 11/06/2009, Jeremy Thomerson <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like to build a nice-looking java desktop application. I hope > that isn't an oxymoron :). I have built some desktop apps before - a > lot of command line utilities in various languages, and some GUI apps > (perl, java, python, php, even vb (yikes!), c# etc...). > > The question is - what framework do you use for your UI components and > layout on a desktop app? I would like to use Java because I'll be > most efficient with it and it will work for me on linux machines and > others on Windoze, etc.. But when I've built Swing apps in the past, > I have hated having to layout everything in the code and I can never > make anything aesthetically pleasing. So.... > > 1 - do you have any recommendations on a good framework for nice > looking desktop apps? > 2 - any other recommendations for desktop apps in general? > 3 - It should be a lightweight, easy install - and I would prefer to > stay away from using the Eclipse framework for building the app (I use > the IDE but it doesn't need to be something that heavy for the GUI) > 4 - I have even thought about building an app that opens a swing > window that contains an embedded browser and jetty servlet running the > app so that I can use Wicket. Has anyone thought of or done this > before? > > Basically, it's a CRUD application, but containing personal data that > the user should not store on someone else's server. I would use an > embedded database that stores the data with encryption. > > Ideas? > > -- > Jeremy Thomerson > http://www.wickettraining.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
