"Felipe Magno de Almeida" wrote
On 9/29/05, Joel Eidsath wrote:
Some reason that we don't just copy Java for a standad C++ GUI? Or is there anyone who thinks they can improve on Swing?
I dont know if they can improve. But I think _we_ can improve its design a lot with the power that C++ has that Java lacks. And, IMO, there are other concerns about GUI that Sun overlooked, like the GUI feel on various platforms. IMO, for Java applications to have the same feel running in different OS is something acceptable, since Java *is* a platform, but it isnt acceptable as requirement in C++.
On the contrary ...according to the Swing site " The pluggable look and feel (...of Swing...) lets you design a single set of GUI components that can automatically have the look and feel of any OS platform (Microsoft Windows, SolarisTM, Macintosh) " Java users must have complained ;-) Apparently this is achieved by Swing modularising each widget using Model -View- Controller architecture. ( I presume the View is customised per platform) regards Andy Little