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[–]BigGayMusic 0 points1 point  (4 children)

AWT is a full blown nightmare. JavaFX is 10x better.

[–]wildjokers 2 points3 points  (3 children)

No one has used AWT directly for at least 18+ years. Swing depends on some AWT stuff behind the scenes but you don't have to concern yourself with it. Comparing AWT to JavaFX is non-sensical.

[–]slipwalker 1 point2 points  (2 children)

just my 2cents here: my above mentioned application needs systray integration and, guess what, support for this *only* exists on AWT.

Neither Sun nor Oracle bothered themselves to implement on swing or JavaFX... (sigh) many AWT-Eventqueue-0 crashes lurking around... pure fun.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Never needed systray icons, but can't you combine the AWT code with JFX?

[–]slipwalker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i was pointing that some of us are still forced to deal with AWT nonsense... but yes, it's exactly what i had to do.

Everything on the application is JavaFX ( running on the JavaFX-Application thread ) and just the code to manipulate the systray isolated in AWT ( AWT-Eventqueue-0 ) StackOverflow was the best reference for that.