RE: [Java-gnome-developer] Thanks and some questions

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

> The documentation on the home page seems very outdated. But using the
> the general gtk and gnome API reference and the examples it wasn't
> very hard to understand how to create the simple GUI that I
> needed. Having those simple examples really helped getting up to speed
> quickly.

I am expecting a release for late next week (around July 3rd).  I will
update the documentation over the next few days.  Please check back!

> I noticed that there is also a gnome-gcj project
> <http://gnome-gcj.sourceforge.net> but that doesn't seem to get
> updated any more. Have the projects merged? Do you want to provide CNI
> bindings and natively compiled libraries? That should speed things up
> a bit especially the startup phase and the shared libraries could be
> used much more efficiently when the user has multiple java-gnome based
> programs running.

I believe gcj is no longer supported.  Java-GNOME only supports a
JNI binding.

> 
> The org.gnu.gnome.About class doesn't seem to work correctly.  It
> seems to use the strings that I give it randomly as authors,
> documentors and translator. I couldn't really detect when it used
> which string. And if given a null string for the translator it crashes
> the whole application.

I will look into this.