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Swing Designer much slower than SWT Designer [message #719272]

Fri, 26 August 2011 15:00

Caleb

Messages: 22
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

I've been comparing the Swing Designer to the SWT Designer, and the former seems to be much slower. Drawing or moving a control takes about 1-2 secs, while in SWT it's instantenous.

Is anyone else getting this, or is it just me?

I'm using WB 1.1.0.r37x201108111706 on Eclipse 3.7 with Java 6u27.

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Re: Swing Designer much slower than SWT Designer [message #719527 is a reply to message #719272]

Sat, 27 August 2011 16:10

Konstantin Scheglov

Messages: 555
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

What operating system do you use?
Problem with Swing is that it requires using different thread to work with components.
So, we have to disable Eclipse shell and run events loop to wait Swing thread finish its work.
I've made small change in trunk to reduce amount of work during this wait operation, but most effect of this will happen only on Windows.

Konstantin Scheglov,
Google, Inc.

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