[info-mcl] digitool (MCL) / clozure (OpenMCL)

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:38 AM, Alexander Repenning wrote:

> Swing can switch between various Look and Feels.

Yes, but none of them really looks and feels like mac os x

> Qaqua is pretty close to OS X Aqua (http://www.randelshofer.ch/quaqua/download.html 
> )

Quite bogus actually - I've just downloaded their example application  
- check out the pop-up menus - each has a window title bar and close  
and minimize buttons on them when they pop up! The minimize button  
actually works, so you can minimize a pop-up menu to the Dock!

The list goes on - palettes with two title bars and two sets of  
buttons, windows with menus in their title bars, pretend "sheets" also  
with title bars and close and minimize buttons, save dialog text panes  
where the standard keyboard inputs (cmd-a, cmd-x, cmd-v, cmd-c) don't  
work …

It's precisely this sort of Frankenstein's monster of a GUI, so common  
in "cross-platform" GUI libraries that I'd like to avoid.

regards,

Ralph


Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro at mac.com