I'm not sure if this is quite what your looking for, but I've found a
nice awt-type toolikit called dogui (http://www.dog.net.uk/knife/) whihc
provides a replacement & some extra widgets to the awt and has a nice
swing-metal L&F. I think it is only dependent on the basic bits of the
awt (like frame, graphics classes etc) so it is "light-weight".
BTW, I'm not sure that providing a plug-in replacement is a particularly
good idea (though I wouldn't complain if someone did it) since it would
take huge resources and swing isn't particaulrly brillant anyway (nice
yes - great no). Having a "light" replacement such as the dogui tk would
probably be just as good an alternative, with people developing other
widgets as needed - thouhg a decent architecture would be needed, swing
has very flexible architecture and perhaps suffers a bit for it.
Maksim.
Brian Jones wrote:
>
> Bernd Kreimeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Paul Fisher writes:
> > > > Is there a free implementation of Swing avalible
> > >
> > > The GNU Classpath project <URL:http://www.classpath.org> has started
> > > work on a free implementation of Swing; however, it will be some time
> > > before it's completed.
> >
> > Is this using your AWT? I gather from Kaffe's source that
> > Swing is not cleanly implemented, so if you want to have
> > a drop-in for javax.swing, it might require the same
> > hidden dependencies on AWT.
>
> Sun's work usually relies upon knowing what particular package
> protected data members represent and how they are manipulated. So far
> I've found documentation on those lacking. The implementation should
> be API and serializable similar, but beyond that I couldn't guarantee
> 'drop-in' type qualities.
>
> > Who's working on the Classpath Swing?
>
> No one is just yet. I'm exploring the waters a bit by attempting to
> write a GTK/Gnome PLAF.
>
> Brian
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