On 31/05/2010, at 2:27 PM, James Cunningham wrote: > > > On May 30, 9:23 pm, Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I care about Mac and Windows primarily, and building software that will sell >> (not dev tools) requires good native look and feel. > > Do you have a single example of an SWT app that has a decent feel on > OS X? I've spent a fair amount of time with Eclipse lately, and--- > frankly---it feels about as native as an Alabaman in Nice. No native > toolbar, no native tabs, slower and uglier than either Netbeans or > Intellij. My only other experience with an SWT app was entirely > negative from a performance and look-and-feel perspective (Vuze).
Vuze looks OK to me in the 5 minutes I've just spent. In any case, my opinion comes from doing parallel GUI development in IB and SWT to see if I could use Clojure/SWT rather than MacRuby (XCode/IB). I'm not using the RCP which imprints it's own not-really-OSX flavour in spite of the widgets. You have to do more than just use SWT to get a Mac application to feel right, and one's GUI layout code needs to be parametric and rules based, rather than just swapping the L&F. That said, it's still easier than writing three UIs. Antony Blakey ------------- CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd Ph: 0438 840 787 The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift. -- Albert Einstein -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
