[kaffe] GNU classpath and AWT

James Simmons jsimmons at infradead.org
Fri Aug 15 15:08:02 PDT 2003


> > I have been looking into it. Note the classpath stuff is very different 
> > from the current kaffe AWT implementation. It would break the current AWT 
> > support. So I have to port the current stuff to the Classpath format. This 
> > will take some time. 
> 
> i think porting kaffe's current implementation to the classpath
> format as you've called it will basically involve creating a set
> of lightweight peers in some kaffe.awt.whatever package and move
> all the drawing from the widgets in java.awt into the different
> peers afterwards? And if so, how would this break the current
> AWT support? It will be totally different, yes, but we wouldn't
> loose any of the supported backends, would we?

True. I have started work on the X window lightweight peers. I shoudl 
finish it in about a week.





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