Rants about Java and other internet technologies by Sam Pullara

Eclipse needs to switch to Swing before SWT really gets out of hand

was published on April 6th, 2004 and is listed in Uncategorized

The latest release of Eclipse (3.0-M8) now has custom look and feels. The default one is pretty random and doesn’t look like my Mac.

For some reason, many moons ago, I thought the reason for SWT’s existence was two-fold:

1) Look like the native platform using native components
2) Higher performance than Swing

On the Mac platform it now has neither. Swing both looks the same as the native platform and performs better than SWT. Will they please just give it up and switch to the standard controls? Can anyone explain why SWT still exists?

"Eclipse needs to switch to Swing before SWT really gets out of hand" was published on April 6th, 2004 and is listed in Uncategorized.

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haha

You must feel stupid now that they release 3.5 with a cocoa swt implementation right? :D

spullara

Not really. I still think SWT is the biggest abomination ever. BTW, you did read that this posting was from 2004, right? Took them more than 5 years.