I'm still not pleased with the font rendering provided by Silverlight,
JavaFX and SWING. Do they allow customising of the rendering algorithm
etc? I'm glad that Eclipse uses SWT, which on my machine delegates to
FreeType.
On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 10:36 -0400, Jonathan Edwards wrote:
> Scala is an impressive and forward-looking language. Except for those
> of us who need to build a UI. Why is the Scala community investing in
> an old-fashioned UI like Swing? Swing just doesn't cut it in the
> modern world of Flex/Silverlight/JavaFX. These support a declarative
> scenegraph instead of procedural rectangular composition. F#
> +Silverlight has that today. The obvious solution is to wrap JavaFX's
> internal API's to enable its usage from Scala. But I can find no
> evidence that anyone is doing that, perhaps because Sun is not
> supporting those interfaces, and actively breaking them. There is a
> preliminary effortin Groovy. Or perhaps give up on Sun and build a
> portal to Flex. One way or another, something beyond Swing is needed
> to build state of the art UI's with Scala. It is the only thing
> stopping me from adopting Scala.
>
> [There is no point in debating the merits of Swing here. The fact is
> that developers have been voting with their feet for a long time, and
> even Sun is investing in an alternative now. Whether fairly or not,
> Swing is now a dead end.]
>
