Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:02:11 +0200, Jacob Carlborg thusly wrote: > On 10/12/09 04:14, Chad J wrote: >> Too bad we can't just make programs switch between GUI backends at will >> ;) > > Why not have a GUI toolkit available on almost all platforms that uses > native controls just like DWT?
The list of native platforms SWT supports is this: Win32 WPF (under development) AIX, FreeBSD, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris: Motif GTK+ Mac OS X: Carbon Cocoa QNX Photon Pocket PC As a FLTK2, Qt 3.x, Qt 4.x, Swing, and (forked) Harmonia user I fail to see how SWT is more native than the ones I develop for. All SWT applications look weird, unthemed, and have horrible usability issues in the file open/save dialogs. DWT brings another level of cruft above the "lightweight" SWT and performs badly.