Re: [boost] Reason for Java's Success

From: Andy Little (andy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-29 16:40:12

"Felipe Magno de Almeida"  wrote
> On 9/29/05, Andy Little wrote:
>>
>> On the contrary ...according to the Swing site
>>  "
>> The pluggable look and feel (...of Swing...) lets you design a single set of 
>> GUI
>> components that can automatically have the look and feel of any OS platform
>> (Microsoft Windows, SolarisTM, Macintosh)
>> "
>> Java users must have complained ;-)
>
> I maybe a little outdated, but I think that the only thing that looks
> more like the native thing, are the widgets. But the layout isnt
> flexible enough to make the whole application have the look and feel
> of a windows application. And, AFAIK, this pluggable look and feel
> already existed since AWT.

Hmm Maybe your right!. Heres a message in comp.lang.java.

http://tinyurl.com/8a7un

regards
Andy little