From: Eli Marmor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You probably meant "Swing". Swing is a replacement for AWT, but
> contrary to AWT, it isn't based on the OS' GUI toolkit, but speaks
> directly to the low layer of the graphics (like Xlib in the case
> of UNIX). This allows it to support Unicode, even under platforms
> without multi-lingual support. You still need fonts.
Yes, I ment "Swing". It's the internal Sun codename for JFC which
leaked out and became the de-facto common name for it.
Swing does NOT replace AWT but is built in pure Java on top of AWT
(e.g. you can download "swingall.jar" from java.sun.com and run Swing
applications with JRE 1.1 (I do this with Moneydance for a few months
now)).
Yes, you still need fonts, but my impression from the lecture is that
the rest of the code (bidi, logical, ligatures...) is already in
there.
>
> Swing is a part of JFC which is a part of Java 2.
Again, Swing *IS* JFC.
--Amos
--Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
| glory, for its people had been chosen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | by the finest judges in England."
| -- Anonymous
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
