[kaffe] GNU classpath and AWT

Dalibor Topic robilad@kaffe.org
Mon Sep 8 14:07:02 2003


James Simmons wrote:
>>>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.

Looks like Clemes Eiserer beat you to it: 
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2003-08/msg00330.html . It would be great if 
you could work together on bringing this code back into kaffe and 
merging more of GNU Classpath's core AWT implementation into kaffe.

p.s. James, I've heard on IRC that you had some problems building kaffe. 
Could you post a bug report, so that something can be done about it?

cheers,
dalibor topic