What: Swank
Where: http://www.onemoonscientific.com/swank/index.html
http://swank.dev.java.net
Description: ''graphical toolkit for use with Jacl''.
It permits those working in a [Java] environment to code against
the Tk widget set rather than Swing or AWT.
Currently at version 2.0.1
Updated: 05/2004
Contact: See web site
[refs to articles]
Seee also Java, Jacl, Tk, Swing, Jacl and Swank Advocacy.
Other Tk-like-widget-sets include Proxy Tk and WebWiseTclTk.
This [L1 ] FAQ on NMRView touches on Bruce's experience in working with Tk vs. Java.
How Swank was developed BAJ 2 June 2004
SWANK was, and continues to be, developed with an automatic code-generation technique. Using the Java introspection capabilities available in Jacl, the methods for each Swing class are deduced, and then Java code is automatically written, with a Tcl script, to implement a Tcl/Tk like scripting interface. Implementing SWANK in this way allows two significant advantages. One, the development of the code was significantly faster than if all the Java code had been hand-written. Second, significant changes in the structure of the code can be made simply by changing the code-generation script, rather than rewriting the Java code that implements the interface to each Swing class. Additional, hand written, Java code provides a variety of utility routines such as the grid and pack geometry managers.