Re: Java Versus gtk

[Chris Sparks <mrada catalina-inter net>]

Harring Figueiredo wrote:

> John,
>
> I had the same dilema about one year ago. The reason I chose GTK was that java
> (at that time) did not support file lokcing -- Now, with the nio package, they
> seem to support - you might try and see if it is not buggy like in Java 1.4.1
> !!)
>
> The other reason was that the GUI runs a bit more smoth with GTK and that I
> needed to do low level bit manipulation (java sucks for this.)
>
>  GTK has some issues also -- most of the stuff are VERY linux oriented (with
> all good reasons) and implementation of some things in Windoze is quite
> different from Linux (Check GIOChannel for example).
>
>   I gues that, all in all, it comes to language preference -- I like
> programming in C.
I sure wish I liked programming in C, it would certainly help my 
profession.  I am an Ada nut.

Chris