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Post #89,378
by johnu
3/19/03 9:02:44 AM
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New Re: Even more to it -was there in the trenches with howitzer
My preference would have been a fixed AWT with MVC (e.g. every widget would have a model like with Swing etc.), those widgets not found on any given platform would be emulated. SWT is too simplistic in that respect.

Are you talking about plain SWT or are you including JFace? My understanding is that JFace is the MVC wrapper around SWT.

We are moving to Java development and have done a first proof of concept module using Swing (which is integrated into our PowerBuilder app). It works ok, but I'm wondering if SWT is ready now to replace Swing. What's your opinion?
Regards,
John Urberg
Post #89,434
by bluke
3/19/03 12:05:04 PM
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New This is what I understand
I have used Swing extensively, I have only read about SWT and have not used it. JFace is a UI toolkit implemented using SWT that simplifies common UI programming tasks. JFace is window-system-independent in both its API and implementation, and is designed to work with SWT without hiding it. I don't think that JFace provides the same level of MVC suport that Swing does. [link|http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/os-ecgui1/index.html?dwzone=java|JFace tutorial]
     Sun vs. IBM and the origins of Swing - (bluke) - (11) - March 3, 2003, 02:41:49 PM EST
         Wow - good posting - (tjsinclair) - March 3, 2003, 05:27:48 PM EST
         Re: Sun vs. IBM and the origins of Swing - (johnu) - March 3, 2003, 10:24:29 PM EST
         I don't buy it - (tuberculosis) - (4) - March 3, 2003, 11:30:39 PM EST
             The basic facts are wrong - (bluke) - March 4, 2003, 04:20:37 AM EST
             Native widgets - (bluke) - (1) - March 4, 2003, 04:10:01 AM EST
                 Re: Native widgets - (tuberculosis) - March 4, 2003, 11:09:14 PM EST
             VisualWorks and emulated widgets - (bluke) - March 4, 2003, 07:08:12 AM EST
         Even more to it -was there in the trenches with howitzer :-) - (dmarker) - (3) - March 17, 2003, 06:27:43 AM EST
             Re: Even more to it -was there in the trenches with howitzer - (bluke) - (2) - March 19, 2003, 07:41:16 AM EST
                 Re: Even more to it -was there in the trenches with howitzer - (johnu) - (1) - March 19, 2003, 09:02:44 AM EST
                     This is what I understand - (bluke) - March 19, 2003, 12:05:04 PM EST

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