Making shared objects with GCJ

Tue Jun 15 21:31:00 GMT 2004

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:18:17PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote:
> Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> > Classpath's Swing implementation should not neccessarily be limited to 
> > using the same L&F across platforms. Since Swing was designed for 
> > pluggable look & feels, there is no reason why native toolkits can't be 
> > used to implement Swing, just like SwingWT and Apple's Swing 
> > implementation on OS X.

> Chris wrote:
> Note, I'm not saying I disagree with the idea of SwingWT etc. Swing was
> largely introduced because of user concerns with the existing AWT: on
> the target machines at the time, it was slow, and there were doubts as
> to its memory consumption and scalability as well. Nowadays the typical
> machine is that much faster, and these perceived problems with
> natively-implemented GUI (including AWT) have disappeared.

Agreed to both!
SwingWT was more about getting something working now. When I looked at
things, the Classpath progress was extremely slow and I set a target of
my Swing app working natively across platforms in 3 months (which I did 
manage in the end).
There seems to have been a real spurt in development in the last 6
months and the Classpath stuff seems to have really come on. If native
is the direction the Classpath Swing is going, then I'd really like to
help out - I imagine there is a load of useful code in SwingWT that
could be reused and I have quite a bit of experience in the UI arena.
Rob
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