Re: AWT?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Brian" == Brian Jones <address@hidden> writes:

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.

Tom