On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Chen Shapira wrote:
> Why write a Graphic Toolkit from scratch? there are many avaliable, in
> diffrent licenses, languages, stages of development, etc. Plenty of space to
> choose from and then adapt to your own taste. All are pretty decent.
Huh? What good toolkit do you know that is
a) public domain (or close enough)
b) good
c) portable to Win32/MacOS/BeOS/X Windows
> The one language that desperatly need an open toolkit is Java. Both common
> toolkits AWT+SWING are controlled by Sun. AWT is too limited, SWING is too
> heavy. I want a free toolkit to play with. (BTW. I heard that GNU is
> duplicating AWT in a free toolkit. Too bad this project doesn't advance...)
The problem with Java is that its C API sucks dead bunnies through a
straw, because it insists on reinventing the world. Gtk+/GNOME would make
a useful addition to Java
--
Moshe Zadka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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