Hi, I'm involved in a game project which among other clients has a Java applet which can also run as an application. My system is a powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (Debian/unstable) and I've been using Classpath-based VMs for several months for Java development. Yet the applet, as it uses AWT and Swing, posed some problems.
In previous months, I was glad enough that it compiled with jikes or gcj, even though some Java 1.5 features had to be converted back (e.g. enums). But it never ran, as the Gtk+ peering was still being developed. Now with classpath-0.9.1, the application starts up and displays its text in the status bar, but the main content of a window, which uses AWT's Graphics2D, it not shown. Instead, an exception is raised: Exception during event dispatch: java.lang.ClassCastException: can't cast `gnu/java/awt/peer/gtk/GdkGraphics' to `java/awt/Graphics2D Is Graphics2D still incomplete? I had a quick look at the source and it seems to exist for a long time already. Also, is this a Gtk+ specific problem? I'd like to try out the Qt peering, but don't know how. When trying to use gij-4.1 instead: ** ERROR **: file ../../../../../../../src/libjava/classpath/native/jni/gtk-peer/gnu_java_awt_peer_gtk_GdkGraphics2D.c: line 264 (begin_drawing_operation): assertion failed: (cairo_status (gr->cr) == CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS) aborting... (Cairo is installed with version 1.0.4.) I feel like I'm one centimetre from not having to log into a box with JRE-1.4 anymore to test the application. The applet variant has good chances of being spread and I'd like to claim that it runs on free Java implementations. Please give me some pointers on where to look or possible modifications to the VM or classpath installation. In case someone feels like this should be added to his/her personal agenda of pushing free java, here's the link to the software. http://live.ggzgamingzone.org/ggz-java-client.jar svn co svn://svn.ggzgamingzone.org/svn/trunk/java Josef
