> The Eclipse toolkit is not a general purpose toolkit. It will require a > lot of work before it is such a thing. It is a toolkit used to > implement a development environment.
SWT is independent of Eclipse, although IBM isn't promoting it in this way. You can run and develop Java GUIs with the SWT or JFace library without having Eclipse installed. It requires a native implementation for each platform, but this work has already been done by the Eclipse project for several platforms. Therefore it wouldn't be a lot of work to support SWT in Mono on a lot of platforms. JFace is also quite interesting. This is the model-based GUI library. Erich Gamma has been working on this project, so I suppose the design is nice ;) . SWT is something like a more attractive and extensive AWT, JFace is the model-based view on such a GUI library. I think this seperation is a good thing (Swing is completely model-based an therefore doesn't offer this seperation). The Mono project should really look at SWT and JFace, because the native implementation for various platforms is already available. SWT GUIs are fast and look nice. Because of the native implementation they really look and feel like native GUIs. Martin Bravenboer. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
