classpath AWT -> gcj

Sun Jul 2 04:48:00 GMT 2000

On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 02:20:46PM +1200, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
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> That sounds great!! I've been doing a little work on libgcj's AWT
> recently (I'll probibly do a checkin in the next couple of days).
> Getting libgcj's AWT going is going to take a while but I don't think
> its a wasted effort - I'm starting with the JDK 1.3 API, where as
> classpath only has a partial 1.1 implementation. Hopefully one day this
> silly licencing buisness will be resolved and we can merge the libgcj
> implementation back into classpath.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I've also done some work on an 
AWT implementation. For those interested, I've put up some information 
on <URL: http://www.ii.uib.no/~rolfwr/jcnix/ >. The code includes a 
general 1.3 AWT API implementation including a lot of the 
Java2D/awt.image classes, a package of Xlib wrapper classes, a set of 
X peer components, implemented using the Xlib classes. 
I had some communications with Tom Tromey concerning the possibility 
of integrating some of the Java 2D code in libgcj. Unfortunately, I was 
busy getting my masters degree at the time, so I didn't have time to 
follow up on it.
I've had some free time lately to continue development, and I've sent 
off the copyright assignment paperwork to FSF. So, if someone is 
interested, I'll be happy to work towards making portions of the code 
I have suitable for inclusion in libgcj.
-- 
Rolf W. Rasmussen