nanogui: Thread: Kaffe port

Hi,
I was busy this week-end, so I haven't made a lot of work on Kaffe port.
But all linked well, all the needed functions (except some not very
important ones) are here now, except the keyboard stuff which I'm waiting
excitingly.
The problem now which I'm investigating is that Kaffe deadlock. I don't know
why now but will go further this evening I hope.
I'll let you know my advances
-jec

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Greg,

What is the current status of Kaffe port?
Is there a way to get partially ported sources?
Also could you hint me about what's already done,
what's should be done and how can I help with porting Kaffe?

Thanks in advance
- Roman

Hi,
I'm the one who began to port Kaffe to MWin.

> What is the current status of Kaffe port?
> Is there a way to get partially ported sources?
> Also could you hint me about what's already done,

> what's should be done and how can I help with porting Kaffe?The status is
that nothing will appear if no one takes the flame.
I've no time to spend on the Kaffe port, it's harder that I thought (must
know Kaffe + MWin!)
If someone would like to spend time on it, I'll be glad to help, but sources
are of no help.
You'd better begin from scratch.

-jec

Hi, Jean-Eric

I need JVM on MWin anyways and I think I'll port Kaffe (what else?).
But now I have no idea what JVM is and I don't know Microwindows in details.
Could you advise me any docs to read about JVM porting you used (apart of those
on Kaffe's site)?
I'll appreciate any help.

Regards,
- Roman

> I need JVM on MWin anyways and I think I'll port Kaffe (what else?).

Not a lot others...
It's the only *working* GPL JVM around.

> But now I have no idea what JVM is and I don't know 
> Microwindows in details.

MWin is very similar to win32. Do you know win32?

> Could you advise me any docs to read about JVM porting you 
> used (apart of those
> on Kaffe's site)?

No, I only read the Kaffe docs that are there.
I think that if you want to succeed, you must understand Kaffe on X first,
and then try to port to MWin.
I think that if you can have Kaffe working on win32 (WinNT/Win95) first, it
will be good to compare the results.
I think that you should go with a snapshot of Kaffe instead of the 1.0.5
(last stable)
You can find it on www.kaffe.org
Subscribe to mailing list too, it's very active.

For the porting, the code I wrote is of no help to you.
Use the existing win32 code and add some #ifdef UNDER_MWIN when necessary
(not a lot of place).
Don't define UNDER_95 nor UNDER_CE but only UNDER_MWIN and compile. Try to
find the errors and correct them. Greg will help you, I'm sure and he is
very good at win32/MWin ( Greg : :-) )

Bye
-jec

Ok, I'll try it, but here is the question:
how'd you advise to implement menus, list boxes, edit controls etc.?
Did you use some kind of ported toolkits (FLTK, GTK)?
I think it is difficult enough to do it from scratch...

Regards
- Roman

On Mon, 22 May 2000 15:35:18 +0300 "Roman Guseynov" ####@####.####
wrote:
>Ok, I'll try it, but here is the question:
>how'd you advise to implement menus, list boxes, edit controls etc.?
>Did you use some kind of ported toolkits (FLTK, GTK)?
>I think it is difficult enough to do it from scratch...

AFAIK all the AWT and Swing widgets in Kaffe is implemented in Java, so
you should only need to port the low level drawing primitives, which is
the only part of the GUI code that is compiled natively.

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>AFAIK all the AWT and Swing widgets in Kaffe is implemented in Java, so
>you should only need to port the low level drawing primitives, which is
>the only part of the GUI code that is compiled natively.

Does the Microwindows offer any widgets such a list boxes or text edits?
As I see Win32 Kaffe port just uses CreateWindowEx() with "LISTBOX" or "BUTTON"
classes etc.
How can I implement such a functionality of CreateWindowEx() on Microwindows?

> Does the Microwindows offer any widgets such a list boxes or 
> text edits?

No, you must use the Java one.

> As I see Win32 Kaffe port just uses CreateWindowEx() with 
> "LISTBOX" or "BUTTON"
> classes etc.
> How can I implement such a functionality of CreateWindowEx() 
> on Microwindows?

Don't implement them.
In fact, in the win32 dir of Kaffe, just don't use the files that are for
ListBox, ListEdit, Buttons, etc... 
See in the X11 dir which files are there. You only need to implement the
files you find in the X11 dir AND in the win32 dir.
-jec

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: >Ok, I'll try it, but here is the question:
: >how'd you advise to implement menus, list boxes, edit controls etc.?
: >Did you use some kind of ported toolkits (FLTK, GTK)?
: >I think it is difficult enough to do it from scratch...
: 
: AFAIK all the AWT and Swing widgets in Kaffe is implemented in Java, so
: you should only need to port the low level drawing primitives, which is
: the only part of the GUI code that is compiled natively.

Yes, that's true.  That's why I am very interested in the Kaffe port, since
it is based solely on the low level graphics API (which at this point is
almost wholely implemented) and doesn't require any win32 or other
widgets.

Regards,

Greg