AFAIK that's entirely up to the native peer, how it chooses to render - there shouldn't be anything preventing SWT from taking advantage of the GPU. Then again, this topic is more interesting in Swing since the whole UI effectively has to be emulated whereas SWT is using native stuff which is already fast, not just when rendering but also in regard to event handling and responsiveness.
There exists a group of people referring to Swing's vision as a pipe dream and it's interesting to note that the up-and-coming language Fan, is using SWT. Last but not least, try asking a visually impaired user, using a screen reader, what they think of a Swing application. :) Btw. I'm not against Swing per se, you can do pretty much anything in you have the time and skill, but I like the technical design and simplicity of SWT (apart from all the int enums, but that has to do with Java itself lacking enums for 10 years). /Casper On Nov 3, 10:11 am, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > Christian Catchpole wrote: > > You can embed OpenGL panels from LWJGL or JOGL... I've done this. > > Works nice. You can even embed Swing panels if you want. > > >http://www.eclipse.org/swt/opengl/ > > It's not what I'm talking of. You're referring to a direct use of OpenGL > for 3D stuff and of course this is possible (both in SWT and Swing). I'm > talking of exploiting OpenGL for some common rendering operations > (textures, gradients, font rendering, whatever) and without using > specific components, but just the normal API calls. For > instance,http://weblogs.java.net/blog/campbell/archive/2006/07/five_more_easy.... > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici -www.tidalwave.it/people > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
