Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome Library

[Gabriele E. <nz...@ga...>]

Hi, first of all thaks for your time.
Perhaps I wasn't clear about my question.
So I try to explain better my question.
Is it possible to use java-gnome for interact with gnome and SWT for draw
the GUI in the same application ?
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Gabriele Erba
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----- Original Message -----
From: <fer...@lo...>
To: "Gabriele Erba" <nz...@ga...>; "java-gnome-developers"
<jav...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Gnome Library


> Hi,
>
> > 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 ?
>
> SWT on Unix uses either Motif or SWT. If you run under Linux and get
"native"
> look and feel you are using GTK already.
>
> Gnome is based on GTK. So there's no way to get Gnome features and not
using
> GTK. You can put a layer of software above Gnome and GTK, but not
discarding GTK.
>
> SWT uses GTK but has no other features for gnome integration. If you need
this,
> you need to expand SWT to use more Gnome APIs and widgets besides the ones
> provided by GTK.
>
> As SWT is a layer on top of GTK, using java-gnome should provide a little
> better performance, besides access to extra gnome widgets not supported by
SWT
> today.
>
>
> []s, Fernando Lozano
>
>