2010/4/10 Michał Bendowski mic...@bendowski.pl:
From the technical point of view, using a common UI library included
in the JDK would be great. From the user point of view - Eclipse looks
like a decent Mac app, while Netbeans is just plain ugly.
The default theme of Netbeans is usually the
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Wildam Martin mwil...@gmail.com wrote:
The default theme of Netbeans is usually the OS-like one.
I think that's the point, really. OS-*like*. It doesn't *quite* look the
same as would be expected from a native app. It's surprisingly tricky to do
this in
One definite advantage that I have spotted in SWT though!
It can recognise more than 3 mouse buttons; very handy if you want the
next/prev buttons to do something in your IDE...
On 12 April 2010 09:45, Dominic Mitchell d...@happygiraffe.net wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Wildam Martin
Curiously I find Eclipse just plain ugly on Windows.
I guess it's all a matter of taste.
[I also don't see using the Mac as a Java development platform as you're
hostage to Apple's timeliness of Java update releases -- and Apple's
pathological secrecy about release dates.]
On 4/10/2010 2:37
2010/4/12 Jess Holle je...@ptc.com:
[I also don't see using the Mac as a Java development platform as you're
hostage to Apple's timeliness of Java update releases -- and Apple's
pathological secrecy about release dates.]
I wanted to test my Java applications also on Mac - to make sure it
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On 4/12/10 10:45 , Dominic Mitchell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Wildam Martin mwil...@gmail.com
mailto:mwil...@gmail.com wrote:
The default theme of Netbeans is usually the OS-like one.
I think that's the point, really. OS-/like/.
Not all of us on the Posse are SWT bashers :) I always thought a next-
generation toolkit could have been built with something like swing on
top of java2D and SWT.
But I guess JavaFX's scene graph is the now new new thing.
On Apr 8, 12:01 pm, Lhasadad lhasa...@gmail.com wrote:
Guys,
Listened
I'd agreee that SWT helped kick Sun in the pants to dramatically improve
Java 2D and Swing.
As such it helped us all out.
At this point I believe it has outlived its usefulness for 95% of use
cases (fonts being rendered just the way you feel they should be does
/not/ count in my book) and
