> Zach> Zach Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Can anyone tell me what > Zach> the status of Classpath AWT is? I may be interesting in helping > Zach> on that part of the project. I can write X/Motif code (and Java > Zach> code) for it. > > Brian> The AWT is not completely functional and in fact can only be > Brian> tested/used with some CVS version of gcj at the moment (as far I can > Brian> tell). The peers do need some work (GTK peers), but probably not > Brian> nearly as much as the AWT itself. > > I've been doing a little AWT debugging lately. I think it is hard to > say where the bugs really lie. For instance, fonts don't really seem > to work (I haven't looked at why). Text fields don't seem editable. > Bringing up a file dialog will crash your application; this appears to > be a bug in the peers. > > That said, there are plenty of bugs in the Java code too. For > instance we basically don't use the tree lock anywhere -- this is a > big problem. You can grep for FIXME in java/awt to see other areas > needing help.
Yeah, there are lots of bugs, but I'm sure they could be fixed with a little bit of time and effort. We would appreciate it if you could help us identify what needs work (Zach). Tom, you have these weird X-Zippy headers in your mails. John Leuner _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
