From: Martin Coxall <azrael@...>
Date: 2006-04-06T17:33:33+09:00
Subject: Re: is GUI a weak point?


On 5 Apr 2006, at 22:06, Carl Woodward wrote:

> No one is intending a flame war but I have seen java do a lot of good
> thick client work and I have had it running (with speed) on linux,
> windows and osx. This includes swing and SWT. I'm not saying that java
> is great but I am saying that the ideas that they have work really
> well for certian situations.

Ah, me to. But my point is, that even when you use SWT, a supposedly  
cross-platform toolkit, you still end up having to support 3+  
similar, but slightly different GUI codebases and polish each one to  
the expecations of users for Linux/Mac/Windows.

It's a lot of work; the notion of a cross-platform gui is something  
of a myth.

In Rubyland, wxRuby � SWT.

Martin