Re: Potential solution for conversion from AWT to Swing

Posted by Raymond Martin-2 on Dec 05, 2009; 6:43pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-development-involvement-contributions-tp3690030p3690086.html

Hi David,

Firstly, I think people are getting ahead of themselves a little with this AWT
versus Swing thing, with all due respect to justified concerns.

Secondly, I can assure you that I would not even bother to try to get a
Swing-based version out if it does not work to at least some minimally
acceptable level.

And even if it does work to some minimum requirements, this does not
mean that it is automatically going to supercede the present stable version
at all. Wayne may decide not to use any of it, it is too soon to tell.

Once I have done a little more work on it an unstable/test/development
version will made available for those who are interested and it will continue
from there in some form.

Thank you for your patience and please just hold on until there is a result
you can try out.

Regards,

Raymond



On December 5, 2009 11:48:37 am David Webster wrote:

> All,
>
> 1. Why is it so important to convert from AWT to Swing?
>
> 2. Will the conversion help, hinder, or not affect users vs. developers.
>  If it affects users negatively, maybe it's not worth it.
>
> 3. I've notice from these comments that Swing portability seems to be an
> issue. From my experience, I find that the portabilty of ImageJ and Java is
> a big plus. If you've ever tried to get openCV compile and link you know
> what I mean.
>
> 4. I've had experiences with JFrames where they appear to have some
> threading problems. That is sometimes they would get displayed before my
> program was done add'ing components to them. This is very undesirable.
>
> End of Diatribe
>
> David Webster