RE: ClasspathToolkit redesign.

[Jeroen Frijters]

Sven de Marothy wrote:
> Ok, I've been looking into the issue of our AWT peer 
> interface now that I've been running my peers on Classpath
> in earnest.
> 
> The goal here is to try to bring our peer interface as close to Sun's
> as possible. And simplify things for potential peer-authors.
>
[...]
>
> Summary: So, my opinion: Keep most of the font stuff and the robot
> stuff. Get rid of the rest, and we'll have an interface which is both
> closer to the JDKs, and simpler.
> 
> Comments?

I very much agree. My peers are only toys at the moment, but I ran into
many of the same issues. Especially the fact that the GTK event model is
integrated in EventQueue is very bad.

> Method: createEmbeddedWindow ()
> Comment: What's an EmbeddedWindow and why do we need this as 
> part of the peer interface?

I'm not sure, but I think this is used for Applets that have to live
inside a non-Java window.

Regards,
Jeroen