Some AWT feedback

Wed Feb 9 18:21:00 GMT 2005

Hi Norman,
Norman Hendrich wrote:
> Hello Thomas,
>> thanks for your reply and tips. 
>> <no offence meant, but slightly frustrated>
> Given my own experience, I find it hard to believe that people are
> running jfreechart or jedit with gcj. Could somebody please speak up 
> whether things like jfreechart 'just compile' or 'actually run'?
>> (In the latter case, I guess I really should upgrade my systems to
> newer kernel als libraries).
> </no offence meant, but slightly frustrated>
>>>>Thanks for testing this stuff and reporting back. I will fix all of
>>these things eventually, but it'd be great if you could file everything
>>in bugzilla so I won't forget about the individual issues.
>>> OK. I have submitted a few PRs, most of them with testcases. You can
> use the code as you like, e.g. to add to Mauve (slightly difficult to
> automate, but perhaps possible via java.awt.Robot):
>> 19838: AWT repaint loop caused by Component.setBackground
> 19839: AWT repaint loop caused by Graphis.drawImage
> 19840: AWT bug in drawImage with 'negative' coordinates
> 19841: gcj rejects inner classes
> 19842: AWT mouse buttons ignored in MouseEvent
> 19843: AWT program not terminated by System.exit
> 19844: Swing components ignore key events
> 19845: Swing NPEs due to ToolTipManager
> 19846: AWT Toolkit.getImage very slow
> 19847: AWT drawImage fails to render 2-color transparent GIF
> 19849: Swing ActionEvent.getActionCommand null for JButton and JMenuItem
>> That might keep you busy for a few hours :-)

Did you do these tests against cvs trunk or cvs gui-branch
(java-gui-20050128-branch
 This is a temporary branch for development of java GUI libraries 
(AWT and Swing) in the libjava directory.)
If against trunk, I guess a few issues could be solved on gui branch. 
(But not sure)
Just a thought.
Andreas