GUI libraries

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Thu Nov 28 11:55:36 PST 2013


On 2013-11-28 15:49, Chris wrote:

> Also, when writing bindings to native widgets, you're always playing
> catch-up too. Once you've got your bindings, the native toolkit has new
> methods, features and classes. I still think it would be good to have an
> independent GUI toolkit, like Java Swing / FX as opposed to SWT.

Using a native toolkit you only need to create bindings to the new 
features and add them to the API. With a non-native GUI you need to 
constantly re-implement the native GUI toolkit yourself. Or using a 
toolkit that doesn't look like any native toolkit at all.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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