Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Re: TextView enhancements

[Mark H. <mh...@ca...>]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 07:44:02PM +0200, Luca De Rugeriis wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm a java/java-gnome/gtk newbie, I've managed to port gnome-postal to
> java-gnome-0.8/gtk2 with success. I have done that in the process of
> learning java-gnome but the app is not much useful because of the many
> callbacks left unimplemented. Integrating all of the original Postal
> functions is beyond my scope, because basically I haven't written any
> app in my life and Postal is quite a big project. However I can submit
> the patches for this if you are interested.
I'm not sure if the original authors of this app are still around, but
please post your patches to this list anyway so that anybody who is
interested in the future is able to take a look.
> 
> Mark Howard wrote:
> >Is anybody
> >on the list interested in taking on one of these sections? Any
> >Java-Gnome newbies? If you do, I promise to review any patches sent to
> >this list, offer help where I can and fix bugs when I get time. 
> 
> Well, as I said, I am a newbie and maybe I can help on this while
> learning. Which are exactly the sections that need to be worked on?
> Are you talking about the TextBuffer example exclusively?

GTK comes with a program called gtk-demo. This gives demonstrations of
many of the gtk widgets. I'd like to create a java-gnome version of this
program. As you can see in gtk-demo, it is spit into a number of
sections. Some of our existing java-gnome gtk demos are almost identical
to these (Button boxes, text view) - they could easily be placed in a
gtk-demo-javagnome app. This request for help was for people to try to
implement the other sections of gtk-demo using java-gnome. This
shouldn't be too difficult (you already have the gtk c source code), but
would be really useful to demonstrate the capabilities of java-gnome and
also how much nicer a java api is than the native c api :)

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