RE: SWT - The LATEST great thing...

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Mihael Knezevic
>
> i know cause i use eclipse on my linux box and it's great.

That's why I'm learning SWT - I want to work with Eclipse.


> but i think
> that with swt you have another dependency and another library you have
> to add to the class path and another file on the disk and one you have
> to additionaly distribute with your apps. and of course more classes and
> methods you have to know about.

True.  But in these days of large applications, one more file is hardly an
issue.  I wish it weren't so, of course, but there really was no other way
to do what they were trying to do.


> that is enough for me to say no. there is allready so much to learn and
> to know about and swt is one thing i don't necessarily need. the
> standard works just fine for me. (just my 2 cents)
>
> but that has everyone to decide for himself.

Yes indeed.  But if you plan on ever writing tools that work WITH Eclipse,
you'll need to learn SWT.

Joe