Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: java swing question Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:04:11 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: K2Qzzs3EAqXk5RLzfhxcSw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29148 On 20 Jul 2014 19:39:59 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Yes, I am an > old man, and, therefore, I still have own memories of the > time when one used to do Swing programming, I personally > have witnessed those days when there was no JavaFX. I had a wait and see attitude to JavaFX, wondering if Oracle would soon drop it as they have so many other Java extensions. You sound confident it is here to stay. Why is it preferable to Swing? -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do. ~ Donald Ervin Knuth (born: 1938-01-10 age: 76)