NEWT widgets

Cork · September 15, 2009, 9:31pm

Can someone explain a bit more about NEWT please. I understand that it can provide JOGL with a native window for drawing into. Which avoids uglyness around AWT and is probably a lot more performant. But what more can it offer. From the javafx package it looks like some key event handling is about all? So what are people doing for widgets in that case? can swing render into a NEWT window? or are there some NEWT widget libraries? or SWT? or do I need to investigate something pure OpenGL based? I need buttons, textentry, drop downs, dialogs, labels, icons/images and check boxes. I can live without layout managers But it seems like migrating from a swing client might be tricky? Advice appreciated!

gouessej · September 16, 2009, 10:14am

Newt does not depend on AWT, it is less heavy, it is not made to be mixed with AWT and Swing. Why not using FengGui?
http://www.fenggui.org/doku.php

Cork · September 16, 2009, 12:58pm

Perfect! that’s exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the tip.

Peter

rsantina · September 18, 2009, 8:22am

It seems NEWT is faster than GLCANVAS would mixing it up with AWT remove this performance

gouessej · September 18, 2009, 10:02am

How would you mix them whereas com.sun.javafx.newt.opengl.GLWindow is neither an AWT component, nor a Swing component?

irreversible_kev · September 18, 2009, 10:55am

AWT JNLP Applet’s using NEWT/AWT: http://download.java.net/media/jogl/demos/www/test.html

rsantina · September 18, 2009, 3:34pm

Thanks irreversible_kev, i saw these demos but i was wondering (sounds crazy) since as gouessej its not a comp. but cant the be made an interface that would embed the NEWT window in the application?