Re: SWING at OJE

[Nic Ferrier]

>>> "Rolf W. Rasmussen" <address@hidden> 05-Feb-01 2:49:31 PM >>>

>1.I'm not certain that a complete Swing implementation 
>will ever      become a practical goal.

Not until Sun decide what it is anyway.


>I was initially a bit wary of dragging in GTK+ into 
>the implementation, but I've changed my position 
>a little since then. I realized that a complete 
>reimplementation of things like Bidi and glyph shaping 
>would be a massive waste of effort when there already 
>exist libraries that do this.

I agree.

>Likewise, while implementing the document model of 
>javax.swing.text I got the feeling that this is something 
>that it would be a shame to implement just for Java 
>Swing, when it clearly can be useful in a general library. 

I agree with this too... I am working (very slowly) on a web browser
written in Java. It is quite different from existing concepts of web
browsers. I originally looked at Swing's document model to see if it
would do what I wanted it to do... but it's too restrictive.

So I've been developing a library (in Java) for handling documents
the way I want to using lightweight AWT components. 


Nic