java-gnome-developer

[Java-gnome-developer] swing support

[Niko S. <nik...@gm...>]

Hello,

I fooled around with gnome and ruby a while and I was thinking why it 
wouldn't be possible to support Swing in gnome windows.

I mean, the big problem with swing is speed, as far as i know, and this does 
not come from the swing widgets but from the horrible AWT threading, imho.

swing is pure java in the biggest parts, i dont really see why it wouldnt be 
possible to write a new Graphics2D class, and let swing draw itself into a 
gnome frame. youd get with one single class:

- full swing support
- j2d support
- maybe replace the JFrame class, who knows.

whats your idea bout this?

regards,

nick

Re: [Java-gnome-developer] swing support

[Joe P. <joe...@in...>]

Just a hunch but I'd bet with the correct AWT peers implemented to use
Java-GNOME, Swing would 'just work.'  Unfortunately, AWT peers aren't on
the todo list for this project.  That, however, doesn't stop someone
else from using Java-GNOME as a base to implement AWT peers.

any feedback from developers 'in the know?'

-joe

On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 10:37, Niko Schwarz wrote:

> whats your idea bout this?

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Re[2]: [Java-gnome-developer] swing support

[Ian D. S. <ids...@co...>]

Joe Phillips <joe...@in...> wrote:
> Just a hunch but I'd bet with the correct AWT peers implemented to use
> Java-GNOME, Swing would 'just work.'  Unfortunately, AWT peers aren't
> on
> the todo list for this project.  That, however, doesn't stop someone
> else from using Java-GNOME as a base to implement AWT peers.

Probably the first thing to do would be to benchmark Swing using GTK
peers (included with GCJ) against Swing using Motif (and Windows and
MacOS for those with access).


Ian

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