From: Niklas Frykholm <r2d2@...>
Date: 2001-08-16T01:57:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19802] Re: The GUI poll is in, and the results aresurprising

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 01:33:00AM +0900, Hal E. Fulton wrote:
> Maybe even a CSS-like system where the user can specify defaults on an
> app-wide basis. Doesn't Swing do something like that?

Yes, a component inherits the properties of its parent component unless
they are specified explicitly.

> Yes... and if we had a JVM-based Ruby... couldn't we use Swing? Or am
> I over-simplifying?

Swing is an OK toolkit, but suffers badly from Java's limitations. Since
Java lacks first-class functions you are forced to write dozens of 
one-method classes. In ruby I would write


	button.add_action_listener {|e| cancel}

but in Java I have to write

	button.addActionListener (new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
				cancel();
			}
		}
	);

Horrible.

// Niklas