Re: Thinlets...any good?

It's been a while since I poked at thinlet but unless it's undergone a 
complete rewrite Thinlet is still one huge class with everything stored 
in this internal array or arrays where each attribute of a widget is 
held in a specific array slot. You can't extend any of the widgets or 
create any new ones unless you edit the source code of that one class. 
And it is NOT an easy class to screw with.

yes to main frame concept and everything else lightweight, no to layout 
manager concept. No to swappable table models becuase I don't think 
there are table models. Not in the same way at least. (could be wrong on 
that one but don't think so).

and no I don't think it would work for what you're looking for because 
of it's lack of oop. So it's not an easy switch from SWT/Swing... it's 
too radically different. Thinlet is it's own little world where nothing 
happs like Swing or SWT even though the end result is visially similar.

With that said, if you're happy with the Thinlet widgets and don't need 
to extend things then yeah it's really nice.


-Kate

Kevin Duffey wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>I know this is off topic, sorry. Always interested in
>SWT/Swing arguments, and I have seen thinlets a couple
>of times. The site is a bit hard to follow. So I am
>hoping Wolf, and anyone else who knows, you don't mind
>answering a couple questions?
>
>Thinlets, as i understand it is a GUI replacement for
>swing/swt, is that correct?
>
>>From what I can tell, it looks like the thinlets api
>has all the normal widgets. Does it support tables and
>trees? If so, to what extent are they like the swing
>versions? Do they support swappable table models, etc?
>
>If I were to use thinlets to build an application
>with, is it fairly robust to handle all types of apps,
>or is it really geared towards simple apps?
>
>How extensible is the api? Can I make my own
>components, with paint methods, etc? Does it follow
>the same premise of a main JFrame type of window, and
>everything else is lightweight? I can add stuff to
>panels, containers, etc? Does it have a layout manager
>type of setup?
>
>I am interested in using thinlets, especially with my
>plugin engine to provide a very small, fast UI
>alternative to using Swing/SWT, but only if it is
>capable of handling the majority of applications that
>would be written using Swing/SWT.
>
>Thanks.
>
>
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