[Scilab-users] Tcl vs. Java: I want to understand

[Stefan Du Rietz]

On 2013-05-14 10:22, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
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> Le 14/05/2013 10:14, Piotr Zaprawa a écrit :
>> Hello
>>
>> I want to understand why Tcl in Scilab has been replaced
>> by Java. I spend many hours reading many different papers
>> on the Internet and I find only this:
>>
>> <Francois Vogel>: ...The Scilab 4.x graphics have been
>> *replaced* by the java graphics, for better or for worse...
>>
>> and nothing else (I was reading about some problems
>> with Tcl on MAC ver. 5.2, but I'm not sure if this is real
>> reason or replacement result only).
>>
>> Do you know any facts about replacement reasons?
>>
> Tcl was not use for the GUI or the graphics. Tcl was used for the text
> editor (scipad) and is still used
> for the graphic editor (ged).
>
> In the 4.X family, the Scilab GUI was written with Xlibs under GNU/Linux
> and Win32 under Microsoft Windows.
> As you can imagine, it was hard to maintain two base code and Xlibs
> programming is not the most intuitive.
> Under Mac OS X, it also required a X server to run Scilab.
>
> Java code has the advantage to be portable and multiplateform and now
> provides a nice look and feel.
>
> Sylvestre
>
But why is the GUI so *extremely slow* in Ubuntu Linux?

/Stefan

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