[745] in java-interest
Re: Native Tk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kacper Nowicki)
Tue Jul 18 14:27:41 1995
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 19:10:17 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Kacper Nowicki <Kacper.Nowicki@fuw.edu.pl>
To: "Jeffrey P. Kesselman" <jeffk@mycroft.isp.net>
Cc: phil@bolthole.com, java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: <199507180046.RAA01806@mycroft.isp.net>
On Mon, 17 Jul 1995, Jeffrey P. Kesselman wrote:
> "If all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail"
> Anonymous
>
> It seems a little pointless if not out-right counter productive to try to
> solve the limitations in one language by grafting a whole different language
> onto it-- paricularly when the languages differ in philosophy as much as
> java and Tk.
:-)
Hey, Tk is not another language it's just a library, set of graphic
routines. We are not talking about Tcl interpreter - just Tk functions
accessible as Java classes with native methods.
> Now i DO think AWT has some real problems, but I disagree with this approach
> as a solution. Among AWT's problems is that tehre doesnt seem to be any
> easy way to just open a text window (terminal style with character
> position based cursor addressing). I've been trying to write sucha beast for
> a week now withotu much luck...
Current Tk release is really powerful package which was written during
several years and which was debugged and used by thousands of programmers.
Just look at Tk4.0 demos (and forget about Tcl for a moment).
Aren't they cool ?
Kacper
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Warsaw University, Physics Dept.
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