Comment Re:Ease of use and elegence with GUI toolkits (Score 1) 419
the more I use swing the more I appreciate its flexibility:
don't like hourglasses? want a wait control that superposes a transparent laptimer over the whole frame? no problem.
Don't like the default tooltips? want to roll your own that jump out like little thought bubbles? easily done.
Want to splice together a tree and a table to create a new hybrid? try
If you can imagine it, you can implement it; and that, to me, is the appeal of programming.
don't like hourglasses? want a wait control that superposes a transparent laptimer over the whole frame? no problem.
Don't like the default tooltips? want to roll your own that jump out like little thought bubbles? easily done.
Want to splice together a tree and a table to create a new hybrid? try
If you can imagine it, you can implement it; and that, to me, is the appeal of programming.
