what is the state of awt in lingcj?

Fri Jul 13 12:43:00 GMT 2001

>>> "Rolf W. Rasmussen" <rolfwr@ii.uib.no> 13-Jul-01 2:07:32 PM >>>

 The problem arose when I tried to implement more 
 complex components such as text fields. First then 
 I realized what a terrible state Swing APIs was in. 
 Swing is horribly underspecified. The documentation 
 of a large portion of classes is practically non-existant, 
 and while the design of Swing on the surface may look 
 sound, the further you dig into the details, the more messy 
 it gets. The chances of creating a proper clean room 
 Swing implementation without seems pretty bleak.
I agree, Swing is also a moving target... stuff seems to change on a
fairly regualr basis.
I think there's an opening for the GNU project to provide an API that
really works. Something based on GNOME/GDK would be good.
Nic