Re: [Gzz] Third, PEG cursors--humppake: Changing mouse cursor

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 12:51:05PM +0200, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> >On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:28:30PM +0300, Asko Soukka wrote:
> >
> >>Fri, 9 May 2003, Matti Katila kirjoitti:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 9 May 2003, Asko Soukka wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>AFAIK, comparing strings isn't cheap either.
> >>>
> >>>Heh, look at callgl code. We do that all the time and you shouldn't
> >>>care that much about it :) Still strings are much nicer than 
> >>>constants, imho.
> >>
> >>Ok, but I still see a difference.
> >>
> >>With CalGL it's clear, which strings are valid, since GL is somehow 
> >>standardized. With mouse cursors we should select between AWT and 
> >>Xlib or create our own mouse cursor set. With awt.Cursor it's clear 
> >>even to possible new developers, what cursors are available.
> >>
> >>Please, convince me that cursors in java.awt.Cursor (with custom 
> >>cursor) are not enough.
> >
> >
> >It's not that they're not enough, it's that I fear it will cause AWT 
> >to be
> >initialized, which would be a really bad thing for us.
> >
> >I'm not sure whether it does; if someone can convince me it doesn't,
> >no problem.
> 
> There is no reason for it to-- it's simply a wrapper around and int 
> constant. Kaffe implements it that way, too.

What about jdk 1.4?

Do any other classes get loaded which might do a global awt init?

        Tuomas