Why not design it so that it can be backed by Swing or SWT or HTML
(perhaps with some AJAX) or whatever?  It seems kind of silly to do an
abstraction on a single backend, don't you think?

On May 27, 4:37 pm, Luke VanderHart <luke.vanderh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Heinz... I may.
>
> Right now I'm still exploring what I want the API to be. I was hoping
> to achieve something a bit "thicker" that could insulate the user from
> Java classes completely. The user wouldn't even have to know Swing or
> handle JObjects or worry about the event thread... In other words, it
> wouldn't be a wrapper API for Swing, but a Clojure GUI api that,
> coincidentally, is /backed/ by Swing.
>
> This may be an unrealistic goal, but I've got pretty far down the path
> of designing it, though I definitely don't want to declare victory
> until I've figured out a strategy for covering every reasonably common
> use case.
>
> -Luke
>
> On May 27, 5:54 pm, "Heinz N. Gies" <he...@licenser.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > +1 For swing especially since I started this already. Look for clj-swing in 
> > github, since this seems quite a load of work I'd be glad for any help so 
> > :).
>
> > Regards,
> > Heinz
> > On May 27, 2010, at 21:30 , Luc Préfontaine wrote:
>
> > > +1 for Swing.
> > > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:59 -0700, Brian Schlining wrote:
> > >> +1 Swing.
> > >> > +1 Swing.
> > >> > > +1 Swing.  There's a ton of documentation out there, and it got some

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