RE: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome Library

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

I am not completely sure I understand the first question so
I will ramble on a little and hope I hit the mark.  The GNOME
desktop environment is built upon a collection/stack of libraries.  
There is no need to use every library in the collection but you
must support dependent libraries.  Perhaps an example will 
demonstrate.  The core gnome stack looks like the following (I
am leaving out numerous libs for simplicity sake):

libgnomeui & libgnome
GTK
ATK & Pango
glib

If you are going to write an application using libgnomeui then you
must use GTK.  This is also true in Java-GNOME.  

Now to attempt to answer your first question; you cannot use GNOME
with SWT.  The GTK2 flavor of SWT is simply a wrapper around a subset
of the GTK widgets.  It includes no support for GNOME except the 
inherent support that is there since they are both using the same 
widget toolkit.

SWT is a windowing toolkit that provides a cross platform widget set
that utilizes the native widget set on a platform where available.
Where those widgets are not available it provides its' own 
implementation.

Java-GNOME is a language binding for the GNOME desktop environment.  
There is no attempt to provide cross platform capabilities.  Since
the focus is on GNOME there is very tight integration with that 
desktop environment which doesn't exist in SWT.  

Which to use?  If you want to write a cross platform Java UI I would
recommend SWT.  If you want to write an Java UI that targets the
GNOME desktop environment I would use Java-GNOME.

-Jeff



-----Original Message-----
From: Gabriele Erba [mailto:nz...@ga...]
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 5:58 AM
To: java-gnome-developers
Subject: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome Library


Hi, I'm Gabriele Erba from Milan, Italy.
Fist of all I'm sorry for my little english.
This is the fist time I post in this mailing-list.
I'm used to develop with SWT for creating java application with native
look&fell.
I have two question:
Is it possibile use gnome library with SWT without using Gtk library ?
If this is true what are the advantages of Gtk library in comparison with
SWT ?
Thanks very much.
----
Gabriele Erba
Audendum est: fortes adiuvat ipsa Venus (Tibullo)
www.gabriele-erba.it








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