On 08/03/2010 04:06 PM, Manuel Borchers wrote:
Replying to myself, just for the record:
http://www.ecosforge.net/ecosforge/branches/packages/microwindows-mergecvs/current/
...
I gave it a try, but failed. After commenting in some sys/select.h
includes, I got further, but I'm now failing with undefined 'nxSocket's
...
So, my only option is to build my own GUI and UI stuff. Question about
alternative GUI libs still stands, though ;)
We chose a slightly convoluted solution: use Java for the GUI -- we
already had a Java app to do GUI stuff. I adapted and upgraded MiKa
(formerly Wonka) to suit my needs. It has an AWT implementation that
integrates quite nicely w/ the eCos framebuffer, and it has itself
implemented fonts, shapes, widgets, etc etc. This MiKa JVM is spawned
from the eCos C application. Like your microwindows port, the JVM seems
to need a network stack.
However, all this is much work in progress, and it runs as a kind of
background task in my work schedule -- other stuff crops up (with
appearing hardware) that requires attention immediately. Thus, there are
many aspects that are unimplemented, for example, shutting down the JVM;
in fact, right now the JVM kills the eCos application at exit time,
which won't be terribly hard to fix but I live easily w/ it right now.
Needless to say, this will make your application memory- and CPU-hungry
(interpreter without JIT compiler, bunches of threads for small tasks
like timeouts etc).
Anyway, our repository is public. If you are interested in giving it a
try, or even in cooperating, let me know.
Rutger
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