Re: [java-gnome-hackers] new developer

[Philip A. C. <pc...@td...>]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 08:54, Jeffrey Morgan wrote:
> We have a new developer on the team.  Please join
> me in welcoming Mark Howard.  I am quite excited
> to have each of you join the team.  For the past
> two years I have, for the most part, worked on this
> project alone.  Now that we have several people
> working on the project coordination is critical.  We
> need to make sure we are not working on the same code.
> Philip is primarily focusing on the gnome package.
> Rubio is primarily focusing on the gdk package.  Mark,
> you and I need to coordinate our efforts for the gtk
> and pango packages.

Welcome Mark!  Right now is an exciting time to be involved with the
java-gnome project.

> I hope to complete the approach for event handling=20
> today.  I then hope we can implement this approach
> throughout all of the widgets.  Please take a look
> at what exists in gtk.Widget and let me know what
> you think.  Once I complete this I hope to implement
> the event handling in gtk.Widget and gtk.Window.  After
> I complete this I wanted to continue with the additional
> Window classes (gtk.Dialog, gtk.MessageDialog, gtk.WindowGroup,
> etc.).  There are still a few container classes that I
> wish to address (HPanned, VPanned, Layout, and Notebook).

So far, gtkWidget looks very good to me.  Kudos.

A status report on where I am.  I was not able to work on the gnome
classes last night.  The night before, I did a lot of looking at what
Jeff had done with gtk.Widget to that point and poking around in
general.  Starting tonight, I think I will start building the gnome
classes and modifiying the testgnome example to use the new API.  My
first mission is to get the gnome classes to the the point where I can
get the testgnome example running.  I can add gnome classes from there,
maybe working through all the examples, modifying the examples and
completing out the gnome classes as I go.

If this approach is not structured enough, I could simply go through
each class at a time trying to make them as feature rich as possible.  I
would still have to get testgnome running so that I can test
functionallity as I go.  JUnit would probably be nice for this, but we
don't have it set up yet and I do not know how.
--=20
Philip A. Chapman