Re: gEDA-user: Free Dog meeting report: Notes on the topics we discussed

[Olgierd Eysymontt <olgierd.eysymontt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why use a native toolkit ? why not use Java, works great, it's fast and
easy to mantain (lots more than c or c++), runs not only in Linux and
Windows but all platforms and it's very easy to create complex
interfaces.

I made something like a 'schematic capturer' in Java which I could
share, but was made for power systems (unilineal drawings).

A lot of work has been make in Java and there are libraries for
virtually anything, that speeds up the development of anything a lot. 


Olgierd


On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 17:42 -0400, Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Saturday 17 September 2005 04:30 pm, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > It may be less work to target a cross platform tool kit like
> > > wxWidgets.
> >
> > I dislike "cross platform toolkits".  I *like* the motif look and
> > feel.  I also think that different platforms should *behave* like
> > native applications; it's wrong to have a windows-based tool acting
> > like a unix application; it should be acting like all the other
> > windows applications.
> 
> Everyone involved with the wxWidget project agrees with you.
> If you build for Motif it looks like Motif.  If you build for windows it looks 
> like Windows.  If you build for the Mac it looks like Mac.   If you build for 
> GTK it looks like GTK.  Same source is used for all.  The native controls for 
> all platforms are used when they are available.
>