"Aaron M. Renn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, all. I have completed coding my first cut at the AWT system.
> What does this mean? It means that all of the following packages
> are done:
>
> java.applet
> java.awt.datatransfer
> java.awt.event
> java.awt.peer
>
> Additionally, virtually all of java.awt is done. The exceptions are
> the classes Event (the 1.0 event class), GridBagLayout, GridBagConstraints,
> and MediaTracker. I'm leaving those for later.
>
> What does "done" mean? Well, not what you think. It means I've written
> the code and gotten it to compile. That's all. I've never even popped
> so much as a button up on the screen.
>
> Paul and Jim Blair have written many of the peers needed to make this work.
> Additionally, I believe they have also written much of java.awt.image
> and are able to load some types of images already. This and the peers
> work at least somewhat with the JDK already.
>
> The next step is to try to make this work. I'm hoping Paul and Jim
> have some time to devote to this since I'm not really the expert on
> the AWT. I just wrote the code, that doesn't I really know what it
> is supposed to do!
I just committed some changes which make it possible to compile the
gtk peers using the usual build procedure which should help.
Brian
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Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
