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FS#264 - Investigate using SWT instead of Swing for UI

Attached to Project: Ted
Opened by Jofo (JoFo) - Saturday, 04 April 2009, 13:10 GMT+2
Last edited by Jofo (JoFo) - Wednesday, 18 November 2009, 21:39 GMT+2
Task Type Change Request
Category UI
Status Researching
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.96
Due in Version 1.0
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

The multi platform support of Java is nice but the UI of our application looks slightly different on every OS unfortunately. We might wanna consider using SWT for our UI
http://www.eclipse.org/swt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Widget_Toolkit

Pros
Looks the same on every OS
Tray support (plug in not needed anymore)
Java web start :)

Cons
Rewrite the UI
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Comment by Roel (roel) - Sunday, 01 November 2009, 22:11 GMT+2
I'm currently sketching new UI. Maybe we can consider implement this new UI in SWT?
Comment by Mike Stead (mike) - Saturday, 07 November 2009, 19:17 GMT+2
Have you ever considered a Look and Feel library such as JGoodies to solve the platform differences?

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/looks/index.html

**Aparently** they claim that they address this.

Might be better than having to rewrite the UI.

Might be worth a look.

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