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RE: RE: [platform-swt-dev] org.eclipse.swt.SWT
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>>>>> I'm your end user, not your beta tester.
He, wait a minute. I'm not an SWT developer.
But then again, I don't like the distinction "end user" -- "beta tester" --
"developer". This is an open source project. Everybody should be allowed to
contribute in the way he can. So we're all users and developers alike. That
is a large part of the appeal of SWT. Swing may be conceptually a bit more
advanced than SWT, but where is the source? And where are the people
contributing? Where is the fun? I just can't be bothered with things like
Swing. I probably wouldn't even do Java, if it weren't for GCJ.
>>>>> But at the same time, a
>>>>> long learning curve is antithetical to broad acceptance, and SWT's
learning
>>>>> curve is just too long right now because it's so non-standard.
Broad acceptance will come with the appearance of nifty, well-done
applications that use SWT. People need to be motivated to learn. The best
way to motivate someone to learn, is to show him what he will be able to do,
after he took the effort of learning. Eclipse could stand as such example,
but it's unfortunately a bit too far away from the application downstream
developers usually write.
>>>> I'm still not sure what the "right" way is to tell
>>>> my window to repaint itself when I change the contents of a label.
That's probably more of a bug that anything else. If I do
Label.setText(String) it works as expected.
