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| author | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> | 2006-08-06 19:02:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> | 2006-08-06 19:02:11 +0000 |
| commit | 8883c03e9f391474267d9cee1dd1ce5865ae888f (patch) | |
| tree | 723f6a19a39398e722e1d6d35aff558aa5fff050 | |
| parent | 76d96a36c6d851b75f56f13d99b9f797245485ad (diff) | |
| download | classpath-8883c03e9f391474267d9cee1dd1ce5865ae888f.tar.gz | |
2006-08-06 Roman Kennke <kennke@aicas.com>
* NEWS: Added note about the X peers.
* INSTALL: Added install notes about the X peers.
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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 6 |
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-08-06 Roman Kennke <kennke@aicas.com> + + * NEWS: Added note about the X peers. + * INSTALL: Added install notes about the X peers. + 2006-08-06 Raif S. Naffah <raif@swiftdsl.com.au> Paul Jenner <psj@harker.dyndns.org> @@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ Suggested Software - Qt 4.0.1 + For building the X AWT peers see information below + (Building and running with the X AWT peers). You will need + the Escher 0.2.3 library: + http://escher.sourceforge.net + Please note that at the moment most operating systems do not ship Qt4 by default. We recommend using GNU Classpath' Qt4 support only for its developers and bug reporters. See @@ -119,10 +124,16 @@ gives a complete list. default=no --enable-xmlj compile native libxml/xslt library default=no --enable-load-library enable to use JNI native methods default=yes + --enable-local-sockets enable build of local Unix sockets --with-jikes to compile the class library using jikes the default is to use gcj --with-glibj define what to install (zip|flat|both|none) default=zip + --with-escher=/path/to/escher + enable build of the X/Escher peers, with + the escher library at /path/to/escher, either + in the form of a JAR file, or a directory + containing the .class files of Escher. --enable-Werror whether to compile C code with -Werror which turns any compiler warning into a compilation failure default=no @@ -164,6 +175,25 @@ More information about the VMs that use GNU Classpath can be found in the README file. ------------------------------------------------------------------ +Building and running with the X AWT peers +------------------------------------------------------------------ + +In order build the X peers you need the Escher library version 0.2.3 +from http://escher.sourceforge.net . Unpack (and optionally build) the +Escher library following the instructions in the downloaded +package. Enable the build of the X peers by passing +--with-escher=/path/to/escher to ./configure where /path/to/escher +either points to a directory structure or JAR file containing the +Escher classes. For Unix systems it is preferable to also build local +socket support by passing --enable-local-sockets, which accelerates +the network communication to the X server significantly. + +In this release you have to enable the X peers at runtime by +setting the system property awt.toolkit=gnu.java.awt.peer.x.XToolkit +by passing -Dawt.toolkit=gnu.java.awt.peer.x.XToolkit to the java +command when running an application. + +------------------------------------------------------------------ Misc. Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------ Compilation is accomplished using a compiler's @file syntax. For our @@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ New in release 0.92 (UNRELEASED) * javax.sound.midi providers have been added to read and write standard MIDI files. * New Java Virtual Machine Tool Interface header, jvmti.h. +* AWT peers for X Windows based on Escher (a pure Java X protocol + implementation) have been added. So far it supports AWT 1.1 style + Graphics, image loading via ImageIO (PNG, GIF and BMP images in this + release), top level components as well as mouse and keyboard input. + It is capable of running many Swing applications. Graphics2D and + AWT widgets are not yet supported. Runtime interface changes: |