Re: State of AWT

[Aaron M. Renn]

Tom Tromey (address@hidden) wrote:
> The AWT code itself is in so-so shape.  Some stuff works, some stuff
> doesn't.  GridBagLayout is completely missing (nice project for
> someone who wants a moderately complex task), as is most of the
> post-1.1 code.  We basically never use the tree lock, which I think is
> a big problem since it will require a more-or-less complete code
> audit.  (Assuming that the tree lock isn't one of those things that
> Sun thought would be a good idea and then later decided not to use --
> the docs aren't very clear.)

I did not refer to the Sun implementation when I wrote the AWT so I
don't know what they did wrt tree lock but it is probably something I
just missed.  You'll find that GridBagLayout is not the only thing
missing.  There are a handful of others such as 1.0 events as well.
As you surmise, there is little post-1.1 stuff in there, though I
believe I tried to implement some 1.2 package stuff if it did not look
too hard.  Brian Jones also did a start on a GTK+ look and feel for
Swing and there might be some other Swing items as well.

I am very glad to hear that the code basically runs.  Hopefully we
can iterate this up to a working AWT in reasonably decent period of
time.

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Aaron M. Renn (address@hidden) http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/

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