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RE: [platform-swt-dev] Support for JSR-198 (was SWT port for Swing!)
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Hey Jim,
I'm with you about IFC. I worked for Lighthouse for a while, and
we were using your constructor (we had added AWT support to it, since we
were bought by Sun). It was a nice tool. Very reminiscent of NeXT's
Interface Builder. Especially the layout system. A reasonable
springs-and-struts kind of layout that was quite intuitive. Actually,
lighthouse had a nice lightweight pure-java component kit that was very
inspired by NeXTSTEP as well.
It might be worth looking at some of these as a component strategy
we've been talking about on-top of the basic SWT widget set. They're
well-honed component models, with decent MVC strategies.
Regards,
Christian.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim White
>
> I have been committed for many years to Open Source Java GUI
> API and was
> (am?) the Netscape DevEdge Champion for IFC. It is/was a
> really great
> GUI and a builder tool that has yet to be surpassed. Yet it died as
> result of bad decisions by both Sun and (I believe) IBM.
> I'ld hate to
> see that happen to SWT, Java's last best hope for fixing the GUI.
>
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/ifc/home.html
http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/ifc/constructor/index.html
My contribution to SWT/Eclipse was Motif and GTK+ ports for Mac OS X.
They garnered no interest (and deservedly so I suppose):
http://www.pagesmiths.com/eclipse/
Jim
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