Re: [gl4java-usergroup] X11HandleAccess

[Dale B. <dr...@cs...>]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, Kenneth B. Russell wrote:

>
> > I've been trying for a while to use the X11HandleAccess class to retrieve
> > the window handle, but haven't been able to get it to work.
> >
> > I'm using Sun's Java version 1.4.2 on Redhat 9.  Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.  Thanks.
>
> JDK 1.4 changed how the native window handle is represented in
> the Sun-internal code and the older reflective techniques now no
> longer work. It is necessary to use the JAWT for portability.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.

> Regardless, it shouldn't be necessary to fetch the underlying
> window handle as there isn't a lot you can usefully do with it,
> at least from Java.

I need to retrieve the drawable for integration with some other
applications.  I'm using Chromium for distributed rendering, and I need to
get the drawable to that Chromium can render into the window put up by the
Java app.  Everything should work out if I can just get the window handle.

> You may want to check out JOGL, http://jogl.dev.java.net/ , which
> has some newer functionality than GL4Java exposes and also
> happens to have all of its internals written in Java for easier
> tinkering.

Thanks for the quick response, I'll check this out as well.

Dale