[Cxtable-devel] Java on *nix

[Williams, D. <DAV...@ca...>]

OK...  earlier in our discussions we had some talk of Swing vs AWT, etc..

I have some questions that I'd like to discuss in more detail.

From my 'failures' running Java 1.3.1_01 (and for that matter, its recommended Merlin 1.4beta replacement) on RedHat 7.0 did tell me one thing.... 

AWT in Linux Java uses Motif.  I am absolutely 100% sure of that.  It sucks.

Swing... what does it use?  I would consider moving the application  to Swing, as some of my most recent changes no longer run correctly under the last MVM release (their implementation of Java, jview..)... 
{{{ I don't, however, wish to debate that.  I kept compliance w/ jview because a couple of my beta-testers (now they've become more intelligent) were REALLY poor at understanding these things, and they had Jview, and they DL'd the patch from microsoft...and I could test the program w/o impacting their daily software requirements greatly.....  Now I feel that complying with anything Microsoft is not even a priority.  It is something I will 'consider' later...but it is not a project requirement...
}}}


Does Swing use Qt?  Does it use Tk?


Now we come to some other issues.  At some point, I might wish to render animation via tightly constructed messaging...  Swing is more suited to this, no?  ((I am not talking real-time animation...))..  I might wish to consider other things...

There are other reasons why I avoided Swing for so long...  I constantly read and participate in the Java forums..although after a year of answering "Class not found" questions and having a couple of 'experts' shoot down my non-mainstream solutions as stupid, I felt that my time was better spent coding...

In my time, though, on the Java forums...I did realize that most people had some type of dislike of Swing, felt that its performance was slow, and that it was eye-candy...that it bulked applications up.... I have to say... these were my first formative opinions of Swing, and its  a hard taste to get out of your mouth once its there...  So I am of two minds on the whole thing...

One, I like the idea of more flexibility, snappier looking GUIs, and all that... as long as performace won't take a hit.

However, I still wonder... is the Swing implementation UNDER *nix more robust than the AWT implementation under *nix?

Anyway...

~Dave





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