Re: AWT?

[John Leuner]

> Zach> Zach Smith <address@hidden> 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