SWT

[Lee]

What is SWT and is supported by Sun? I have an application RSSOwl which uses
SWT and it runs much more smoothly than Swing. Has anyone used SWT? Is it
worth using over Swing?

 

[Carl]

What is SWT and is supported by Sun? I have an application RSSOwl which uses
SWT and it runs much more smoothly than Swing. Has anyone used SWT? Is it
worth using over Swing?

IMO, yes, yes, and sometimes.

You might want to start here:

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

HTH,
Carl.

 

[Carl]

IMO, yes, yes, and sometimes.

You might want to start here:

http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

HTH,
Carl.

Ooops, that should read no, yes, and sometimes

Carl.

 

[Hal Rosser]

I think what Carl was saying is:
SWT is not Sun - endorsed
Its an IBM thing - I think
And the Eclipse IDE has a plug-in so you can use SWT
SWT is not pure Java - but some folks use it for the reason you pointed out

 

[Carl]

I think what Carl was saying is:
SWT is not Sun - endorsed
Its an IBM thing - I think
And the Eclipse IDE has a plug-in so you can use SWT
SWT is not pure Java - but some folks use it for the reason you pointed out

Actually, its a Eclipse Foundation thing.
The Eclipse IDE itself uses SWT.
The link to the eclipse.org/swt page is a link to the eclipse.org swt
project page and provides "Detailed information about developing
applications with SWT..."

This may have been more appropriate.
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/platform-swt-home/faq.html

 

[Lee]

thanks for your help.