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



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Seee also [Java], [Jacl], [Tk], [Swing], [Jacl and Swank Advocacy].




Other Tk-like-widget-sets include [Proxy Tk] and [WebWiseTclTk].

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This [http://www.onemoonscientific.com/nmrview/NMRViewJTransition2.htm]
FAQ on NMRView 
touches on Bruce's experience in working with Tk vs. Java.
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'''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.
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