Re: GuiKit, seeking some guidance and comments
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- Subject: [mg99797] Re: GuiKit, seeking some guidance and comments
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 04:15:43 -0400 (EDT)
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meitnik wrote: > Hi, > > I am considering porting my palette to GuiKit in a few months. Hey, I > need to enjoy using my palette for awhile doing math right. ;-) > What do you long time users of Mathematica think of GuiKit? What is > its strengths and weakness, is it worth mastering as preparing for the > future of Mathematica? How is the best way to learn GuiKit, what are > the best examples of GuiKit to be studied? How polished and stable is > GuiKit? > > Thanks, > Andrew > IMHO, GuiKit sufferes from insufficient documentation, and its design seems overly complicated, and to require that the user also knows a fair bit of Java. When I last tried to use it, it also contained some irritating bugs. I wrote my Super Widget Package (SWP) (free from my website) as a hopefully better alternative - so if you want a Java GUI, I think you should at least try that first. I used to base my SWP on GuiKit, but more recently, I reorganised it to work directly with J/Link, substantial quantities of compiled Java code. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk