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  1. Re:So don't use Swing? by AKAImBatman · · Score: 2, Informative · on Why Microsoft Will Never Make .NET Truly Portable

    if you or your users don't like Swing there are numerous alternatives.

    Indeed. Here's a few:



    Those are the ones off the top of my head. There are quite a few more out there in the wild.
  2. Re:portable gui by Jerf · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Core Python Programming
    I happen to use Linux, OSX and Windows, and the number one annoyance for me is a lack of clear "native-looking" GUI or OpenGL toolkit offering that is reachable by scripting languages like Perl and Python.
    What you're probably looking for there is wxWidgets, which is a sophisticated native wrapper around each of those and has binding for Python, Perl, and the usual motley crew, including .Net and to some extent Java (I think).

    It has XRC files, which I think is how GUI designers tie into wxWidgets, covering that, too. I'm in the GUI builders are evil camp, so I don't know much more about that.

    Tk sucks, but the general trend seems to have been away from shipping a standard GUI toolkit. There's just too many choices ranging from good to excellent to choose one. (And note this is not a problem specific to Python, it's true for all of the mainstream languages. How do you choose between GTK/QT/WinForms/Carbon/wxWidgets, plus a couple of other credible contenders, plus perhaps whatever your local GUI system is if you're on an exotic system, etc. They've all got obvious platform compatibility and licensing tradeoffs, and a whole slew of much more subtle quality and capability tradeoffs. It's really not possible at the current time to mandate one choice. I'd rather see Tk just come out than try to standardize on something els.)
  3. Re:Is none of the above an option? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on SWT, Swing, or AWT - Which Is Right For You?

    Use awt or swing and your users have to get along with a slow, strangely looking, awful interface which will turn them away from your application anyway.
    Therefor, use wx4j.

  4. Re:This misses the point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Oracle and Sun Team Up to Provide .NET Alternative

    Swing is terribly ugly and slow. Try wx4j - a Java Binding for wxWidgets - instead and enjoy the native widgets with their normal speed.

  5. Re:It's heavily used in some areas. by primus_sucks · · Score: 1 · on How Much Java in the Linux World?

    Yes Swing blows on the desktop. Here are some great altenatives:

    SWT - awesome windowing toolkit developed by IBM
    wx4j - Java bindings for wxwindows.

  6. Re:Can I have an infinite budget to write the code by ByteSlicer · · Score: 1 · on Java Faster Than C++?

    WxWindows is called WxWidgets nowadays. wx4j is a binding of WxWidgets for Java, and is similar to SWT. Still in first stages of development, though.

  7. wx4j: Native widgets via wxWidgets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sun Opens JDesktop Integration Components
    You can get native widgets in Java via wx4j.

    Heck, you can even compile the whole thing natively.

  8. wx4j: Native widgets via wxWidgets by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Sun Opens JDesktop Integration Components
    You can get native widgets in Java via wx4j.

    Heck, you can even compile the whole thing natively.

  9. Re:Big mistake. by hey! · · Score: 1 · on McNealy Answers: No Open Source Java

    but you know, stick a decent, time-test GUI toolkit on it and I might consider developing with it in the future, especially in light of the other improvements being made to it.

    Well, how about wx4j, a java binding for the well respected wxwindows?

  10. Re:He obviously doesn't get it by primus_sucks · · Score: 1 · on Mono and dotGnu: What's the Point?

    .NET performs *MUCH* better than Java.

    You may want to check this out. Java beats .Net in all categories except trig calculations.

    Sadly, the cross-platform promise of Java, especially for GUI desktop applications, was never realized.

    Since you admitted you're a former C++ and now a .Net developer, I don't think you're qualified to make this statement. I've developed Java apps for 6 years and I haven't seen any cross-platform problems for at least the last 5 years. I'll agree with you that Swing sucks, but SWT or wx4j gives you native look & feel and native performance and cross-platformedness. So I think that even if you are developing a client side app, there is no reason not to use Java. Why lose the 10% or so Linux/Mac users when Java is just as good as .Net for client side development?

  11. Re:Language-Neutral GUI by rmohr02 · · Score: 1 · on C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3
    wxWindows was originally for C++, but there are versions of it for other languages:I'd say that covers most of the languages I'd program in.