Java Swing performance (was Re: EOF not included in OS X?)

[Paul Libbrecht]

At 10:30 PM -0700 4/1/01, strobe anarkhos wrote:
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>Use Swing but don't bullshit people by saying it's a multi-platform 
>API or makes writing applications on many platform easier. I have no 
>problem with Swing so long you call it what it is: a slightly 
>fancier interface API than AWT.

Mmmmh, slightly fancier...
Ever tried to make something, say, like a console in AWT ??? The 
poorness of the specifications makes it almost impossible. Whereas it 
is a delight doing such a thing in Swing.

Honestly, Swing is way more feature rich (and subclassability rich) than AWT.
AWT is like a kind of common-denominator that does only a few things 
they're sure to have, for example, there's nothing for 
window-layering in AWT (almost nothing).
Swing, however, might dare compare to Cocoa, but the speed doesn't 
follow it too much... in exchange, the cross-platform behaviour is 
far better than AWT because synchronizing doesn't happen on the 
window-manager side but at the java-side...

Paul


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