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Re: JavaFX will replace Swing?

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On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 12:34:10 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :

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>My gut feeling is "no," don't start yet.  Sun/Oracle has had enough 
>false starts with rebooting Swing that I think any kind of large switch 
>over to something besides Swing is premature.

I concur. The successor to swing is going to have to be more
compatible with it and better integrated with Java.

Eventually we will invent something analogous to CSS style sheets to
do Java layouts.  The program will not be concerned with precise L&F.
just data and data typing We will also have smart components for all
manner of data, including things like international phone numbers,
currency, dates, checksummed ids, Strings with limitations on char
set, international addresses. The small components guide the user to
keying an error-free value.

Components will grow and shrink to take up available real estate,
revealing or hiding less important data, shrinking fonts,
labelling/stripping labels etc .

We give up microtuning displays, but we get back the ability to create
quite pleasing screen layouts dynamically.  The intelligence to layout
the pixels will be too complicated to explain. It may even use neural
nets or AI techniques.  You may have the ability to "complain" about
the results to help it refine its algorithms.  The big advantage is
complete consistency.
-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
~ Brian W. Kernighan 1942-01-01
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Re: JavaFX will replace Swing? markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-06 12:34 -0700
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