Re: Swing cannot even get basic font rendering right

Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 09:09:25 +0100
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy
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Couldn't agree more. The two problems with Swing are that it is slower than
native apps, and that it doesn't look 'right'. Now yes, some people don't
care about the slight imperfections in rendering, and some people think the
speed is more than fast enough to be useable. But the volume of Swing
desktop apps (see lack of), show that there are plenty of people out there,
like me, who use Java as their main programming language, but will not
develop or use Swing for anything other than in house apps. While there are
a significant number of people who won't use Swing, no amount of bleeting
from the pro-swingsters will change the fact Java is dead on the desktop
without something like SWT taking over.
What bemuses me most of all, is that by criticising Swing we are trying to
get a better solution than Swing which would improve Java for everybody, but
instead we are derided as either not being able to program Swing properly,
or that we're mad.