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Swing and AWT, arghSwing and AWT, arghPosted May 22, 2006 17:13 UTC (Mon) by philips (guest, #937)In reply to: Swing and AWT, argh by lauwenmark Parent article: Harmony project to get a Swing/AWT implementation
> Underlining the deficiencies of Swing is one thing - but next time,
Well, I'm not sure what kind of platform you run, Swing examples run dog slow and unresponsive on my Linux box (AMD64 X2). Anything more complicated than simple text editor is unusable due to very high latencies. (*). GVIM with syntax highlighting open on busy remote server over X protocol tunneled over ssh runs snappier than localy run Swing demos from Java SDK.
On side note, SWT thou not perfect, quite usable - here I'm judging by Eclipse - on both Windows and Linux. I personally use vim - but most of my friends use solely Eclipse with plug for C/C++ as their primary development environment. (**)
Probably Swing is designed better than SWT. It doesn't matter to me much since I haven't seen single worthy Java GUI application using Swing. And I have on network bunch using SWT.
(*) Okay, I'm touchtypist and quite sensitive to such stuff. Probably others are okay with the delays and flickering.
(**) Just recalled. Azureus - BitTorrent Java client - uses SWT and runs on Windows, Linux & Macs. I used it on many occasions on all of the aforementioned platforms. In other words, SWT much more portable than parent tries to imply.
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