Re: Java Versus gtk

[Michael Hagemann <michael hagemann unibas ch>]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:16:47 -0700 Michael Torrie wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:47, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
> >  Also, remember that a QT license must be purchased before you start writing
> > the code (for non-open source/free software)..Read it for more details.
> >
> >  I forgot to mention also that I have seem really cool interfaces running on
> > both Win and Linux using GTK -- Gkrelmm comes to mind -- things like this is
> > not easily done in Java -- in MY opinion.
>
> What about java bindings for gtk?  Would that not give you the best of
> all worlds?  Or Gtk# and mono for that matter.

Did anyone use the Eclipse SWT toolkit yet? (http://www.eclipse.org/swt/)

As the GUI framework for a non-trivial application like Eclipse it can
definitely be considered a viable alternative.  For me, at least, it
would be one of the (few) reasons to have a look at Java again...

In a nutshell it is basically a "thin" abstraction layer for native
toolkits (thinner than Swing at least).  On Unix, it uses Gtk as the
native toolkit.


regards,
michael