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by vips7L 783 days ago
I tried to use swing a year or so ago. It wasn’t a great time. I’d probably go with JavaFX or compose multi platform if I did it again.
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hasbot 783 days ago
Well sure it takes a bit of time and study to learn it but it's a totally viable cross-platform UI toolkit.
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vips7L 783 days ago
Oh I agree it’s viable! It just wasn’t pleasurable to work in. I’m looking forward to trying JavaFX when the time comes :)
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datavirtue 783 days ago
I hope you tried it with the NetBeans visual designer. That is basically Java's Visual Studio.

FX is not flushed out. Though it does have some data binding, which is all manual in Swing.

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