[news.eclipse.tools] Re: GUI again

[froses@xxxxxxxxx (Francesc Rosés)]

Hi David!

  My vote: AWT/Swing...

  Francesc

David Whiteman wrote:

> "Scott Stanchfield" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:b6eren$qqq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Over the past few weeks I got the stable GEF and have been working on it
> > like crazy. I've got my model where I want it, and a good separation of
> > plugins so I'll be able to easily support AWT/Swing or SWT. (Heck, my
> > approach would let one use my builder to create non-Java GUIs with the
> right
> > plugin. I hadn't really throught about that until now...)
> >
> [snip]
> > I upated the eclipse wiki page yesterday with a bit of news.
> > http://eclipsewiki.swiki.net/145  I'll eventually post a web site with
> > screen shots and so forth.
> >
> > (After reading the wiki page), is there anything in particular that you'd
> > like to see in a builder?

> Way cool, Scott.  Personally, I am only interested in the SWT building part.
> I noticed on your Wiki notes that you will implement AWT/Swing first.  With
> the prevalence of AWT/Swing builders out there (admittedly though not for
> Eclipse), there are plenty of alternatives.  However, there are none for
> SWT.  I would be interested to know what percentage of the group would use
> the tool to build AWT/Swing apps vs. SWT apps.  My gut feel is that you
> would benefit more people to implement the SWT builder first.

> David

> P.S. I got a chuckle out of the Michael Jackson comment.