yep. There have been several times when I wanted an immediate mode API but each of these had a better alternative using the scenegraph API. A few items aren't possible with today's API, but I've filed bugs to add them. see:
http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-5570 http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-5569 - josh On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:13 AM, Peter Pilgrim wrote: > > > > On 23 Sep, 04:23, Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Bottom line: we already have DSLs for GUIs. Swing/SWT >>> for complex apps and Flex for simple apps. >> >> I guess the IT industry better stop innovating then huh? >> >> We should have stopped at Smalltalk. > > Immediate mode APIs are really last century. I worked with Borland > Pascal, C++ GraphUtils and X Windows/OSF Motif, a tiny little bit of > QT/KDE for a while, and of course Java AWT, Swing, JFC. Every user > interface is moving to a unified scene graph model of 2D, 2.5D, or 2D > and 3D. > > If you looking for something to blame, then Cupertino, Apple, iPhone, > iPod Touch. Unfortunately they are leading the wave at this moment in > time. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
