To put the question another way, do Swing classes come with some kind of
performance/resource overhead vs. AWT classes, or do you get the slicker
interface at more-or-less no additional cost?
George Phillips
Information Technology - University of Miami
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wilson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 11:49 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Use Swing ?
>
> In my opinion Swing is NOT really nessessary. If you
> are very cleaver with gridBagLayout and cardLayout you
>
> can make perfectly functional AWT GUIs. The option
> panes are nice but you can make your own option pane
> class. The DB grid stuff is very nice but you can use
> a text area or list box in combination with a text
> field to do similar things. For applets I don't use
> Swing but for applications I use it all the time.
>
> Just my thougts,
>
> James
>
> --- KIRAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello Everybody,
> > I want to know how advantageous it is to use swing
> > components in the
> > applet GUI design. I have installed the JAVA 1.1
> > plugin in both the IE
> > 5.0 and NS 4.5 browsers. I have used swing
> >
> components(JPanel,JButton,JTextField,JLabel,JComboBox).
> > The applet is not being displayed in both the
> > browsers.
> > The ERROR - in IE 5.0 - applet <name> cannot be
> > instantiated.
> > The ERROR - in NS4.5 - class definition not found
> > (java.swing.JPanel).
> >
> > Is it OK to use the JBCL grid control?
> >
> > I'am also having problem editing in the swing
> > controls.
> >
> > I'am sorry that this question is not related to
> > servlets, but I soon
> > will be having a lot of questions on that too.
> > Any suggestions on GUI design and Layout are
> > welcome.
> > Thanks everybody. I'am getting all my help from you
> > people and I
> > appreciate it.
> > Bye.
> > -Kiran.
> >
> >
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