+1 swing. Even if the resulting applications are as ugly as sin, a working, idiomatic implementation gives us a reference point from which to dream up better futures.
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 31/05/2010, at 2:27 PM, James Cunningham wrote: > >> >> >> On May 30, 9:23 pm, Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I care about Mac and Windows primarily, and building software that will >>> sell (not dev tools) requires good native look and feel. >> >> Do you have a single example of an SWT app that has a decent feel on >> OS X? I've spent a fair amount of time with Eclipse lately, and--- >> frankly---it feels about as native as an Alabaman in Nice. No native >> toolbar, no native tabs, slower and uglier than either Netbeans or >> Intellij. My only other experience with an SWT app was entirely >> negative from a performance and look-and-feel perspective (Vuze). > > Vuze looks OK to me in the 5 minutes I've just spent. In any case, my opinion > comes from doing parallel GUI development in IB and SWT to see if I could use > Clojure/SWT rather than MacRuby (XCode/IB). I'm not using the RCP which > imprints it's own not-really-OSX flavour in spite of the widgets. > > You have to do more than just use SWT to get a Mac application to feel right, > and one's GUI layout code needs to be parametric and rules based, rather than > just swapping the L&F. That said, it's still easier than writing three UIs. > > Antony Blakey > ------------- > CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd > Ph: 0438 840 787 > > The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful > servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten > the gift. > -- Albert Einstein > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
