[java-gnome-hackers] RE: Want Java-Gnome help?

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

Tom,

I would greatly appreciate your help.  There is a lot
of activity going on right now on the ATK, GDK, and GTK
library bindings.  The GNOME portion of the library
still needs some work.  I hope to finish the lower level
libraries over the weekend and then focus my attention
on GNOME.

I believe our libglade bindings need some help.  Since
you have an interest in this I would appreciate it if you
could take a look and make some recommendations.  One of
the areas that I would like to see changed in the libglade 
binding is the event handling.  As you can see from our 
bindings we have just changed over to a more "java like" 
event handling API.  libglade still wants to use the old 
signal_connect method.  As a result I have had to keep our 
old event handling structure public.

As far as converting the cormagnon example, I believe it might
be a little premature to begin this effort.  This example relies
heavily on the GNOME APIs.  I hope to be at a point where I can
focus on them next week.

-Jeff

> I downloaded the java-gnome sources this evening
> and am impressed by the work done so far. 
> Building the cromagnon app showed it hadn't been
> converted after some major API work your team has
> done, however.  I thought I'd therefore port the
> example to learn your team's API.
> 
> Most of the changes were obvious, and I really
> like the new API as the changes make the API seem
> more "Java-like".  This is a pleasant surprise
> since I was expecting more of a machine
> translation like many of the other Java library
> bindings are (the OpenGL bindings come to mind). 
> I also noticed that some of the conversion work
> doesn't appear to be done; in particular, the
> stock menu items referenced by cromagnon.  The CVS
> dates don't show any activity for a few weeks, either.
> 
> So, does your team need any help finishing this
> library?  I work for Sun Microsystems on mostly
> open software projects, including NetBeans and a
> couple of its modules (classfile and metrics are
> mine).  Prior to that, I was one of the lead
> developers of Swing and the AWT (although don't
> blame me for its initial API!).
> 
> I am a big fan of Glade, and was starting to write
> a Java version of libglade when I found your
> project.  So as a good open source citizen, I am
> ditching my effort and hope you'll take me on your
> team instead!
> 
> Tom
>