RE: [platform-swt-dev] Support for JSR-198 (was SWT port for Swing!)

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Could you or Derek Anderson please explain
how SWT could be implemented on top of Java2D?  Java2d is just a rendering
pipeline for use with AWT.  You'd still be using AWT.

"Christian Gruber" <cgruber@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 05/26/2003 12:22 PM Please respond to platform-swt-dev

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Granted, but no one is arguing
that AWT sucks less than any other option discussed here.  The point
of comparison is Swing.
 
As to your second point, I agree
with you entirely.  I'd rather see SWT ship by default with Java.
 I also don't like the idea of SWT-on-AWT or SWT-on-Swing.  I'm
suggesting an SWT-on-Java2D. 
 
regards,
Christian.
 
-----Original Message-----
From: platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:platform-swt-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike Wilson
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 10:45 AM
To: platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] Support for JSR-198 (was SWT port for
Swing!)


I really dislike the characterization of SWT as "not pure Java".
The truth of the matter is that, SWT is closer to being written in pure
Java than AWT is. At least in SWT, most of the interesting work is done
above the level of the natives. 

The real problem, which you see as "pure Java-ness", is just
that the SWT libraries don't ship with the standard Java installs. It makes
more sense to attempt to fix that problem than it does to code an SWT on
top of AWT. Ugh. 

McQ.