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100% java GUI: Is this useful to anyone?
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- Subject: 100% java GUI: Is this useful to anyone?
- From: ashe@boulder.qms.com (Steven Ashe)
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 99 15:51:54 MDT
In some spare time, I put together a Windowing Toolkit in 100% java --
it talks X11-protocol over TCP to an Xserver (no awt; no native code). It is
also single-threaded, and has a 100% java un-gif-er. It compiles (from .class) and seems to run
under gcj2.95 (even with threads=none).
Making this public is a lot of work, which I'd do, *if* there's interest.
Some questions that come to mind are:
1) it would need a license. I'd like it to be 'non-commericial use only'.
2) documentation :-(
3) where to get it hosted?
4) is it of any use to anyone??????
Anyway, it has internal classes (X, XWindow, XPixmap, XComponent),
standard utilities (XFont, XColor, XCursor, borders of a variety of
flavors), images (XImage), and GUI stuff (menus, buttons, radio-buttons,
button groups, scroll-panes, scrollbars, sliders), plus intuitive
LayoutManagment. Current limitations include: miminal testing of some
parts, requires a TrueColor visual (any depth) on the X server, has
no TextAreas, neither List nor Tree widgets.
It's about 11,000 lines of Java thus far.
RVSP.
-Steve Ashe
ashe@boulder.qms.com