Re: AWT or Swing or Any other ?

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:46:06 -0500
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On 12/9/2012 5:34 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 12/8/2012 3:42 AM, Roedy Green wrote:

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 00:53:15 -0800 (PST), Sourabh Mhaisekar
<sourabh8044@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

I am relatively new into java world.
I need to build a DSS system in java.
Am confused about which GUI tool should I use.
AWT, Swing or Any other third party tool.


Nearly everything now is Swing.
see


Nah.

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swing.html


#The biggest gotcha is that you no longer add directly to your Swing
#containers. Any content inside a JFrame should be placed inside its
#contentPane. You must do a:
#
#Container pane = swingContainer.getContentPane();
#
#and add to it. Unfortunately the add method is still defined for the
#Swing Containers to entrap the unwary.

You can certainly add directly to most containers.

And JFrame add has been forwarding to getContentPane add
since Java 1.6 (2006!).

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/awt.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/swt.html
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/javafx.html


#JavaFX Mobile is a platform for cell phones based on Java and Linux.

First JavaFX Mobile is only part of all JavaFX.

Second JavaFX Mobile did run on Windows Mobile, which
obviously is not Linux based.

#JavaFX Script is a statically typed scripting languages for use in
#devices such as TV set top boxes.

JavaFX Script was intended to be used on all JavaFX platforms
not just TV's.

And JavaFX Script was abandoned in JavaFX 2.x.


I suggest that you start posting links to Wikipedia
instead.

Usually there are more details and it is more correct
and more uptodate.

And therefore a better service for the cljp readers.

Arne

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