I agree, Jambi is a better all-round product... but why the Swing hate? It's fine for what it is. Most of it's drawbacks (horrible L&F, poor performance) are things of the past, now.
It would definitely be my framework of choice for a quick, one-off app or an applet. -Luke On Feb 16, 10:50 am, Dan <redalas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I know that all Java GUI libraries can be used within the REPL, but it is > > my understanding that in order to make it self-contained and executable (a > > jar or a class file), it is necessary to write some Java and call the > > Clojure code from the java applet or application. Is this true, or am I > > doing it wrong? > > > I know a lot more about Common Lisp than I know about Java by the way, so I > > end up having to figure out Java stuff sometimes in order to do certain > > things in Clojure... > > Java's Swing is terrible and if possible, you should avoid it. If you have > to do an applet then you might not have a choice but if you can use Java Web > Start, go with Jambi. > > Jambi is a binding for the much cleaner and friendly Qt toolkit. You can see > it in action (java web start so no installing required) > here:http://dist.trolltech.com/developer/download/webstart/index.html > > You would also benefit from an awesome interface designer (which is *not* an > IDE so you can do your GUI in it and code with your favourite editor). > > The drawback (beside not being able to do applets) is that there is a > different jar file you have to bundle for each platform (but they all have > the same api so it's really just a packaging concern). In the past, there > would also be a potential licensing problem (either GPL your code or pay up) > but the next release (next month) will be LGPLed so you can do a proprietary > app with it if you wish. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
