For the record, I actually am a fan of Java. However, I am NOT a fan of developing a Java GUI (having done this in the past). I'm sure the tools have improved over the last few years since I last worked with a Java GUI, but back then it was about as easy as Visual C++ GUIs before Windows Forms (choke...gag).
Personally, I would love to use a GUI development language/tool that was not wrapped up in the Microsoft hoopla, but there is just no denying that the Visual Studio IDE + Windows Forms makes GUI development nice. Nicer than anything else I've used to date. Intellisense, break points with watches, immediate function calls while debugging, etc are really hard to live without once you have had them. The downside (besides it being Microsoft and thus tied to the hoopla) is the massive amount of auto-generated code to build the forms. They addressed this partially by using another separate file for the auto-generated stuff in VS2005, but it is still excessive in my mind. I suspect that other tools will (or have already) surpassed Visual Studio in these terms (GUI development), but I have yet to use one. Eclipse is still on my list of downloaded, but not yet tried tools. Eric Wachsmann FlexRadio Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > radio.biz] On Behalf Of KD5NWA > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:37 PM > To: FlexRadio > Subject: Re: [Flexradio] [hpsdr] D anyone? > ...the major player "programmers" are > not fans of Java... _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
