[kaffe] CVS kaffe (jserv): Update Qt AWT backend and gcjwebplugin information.

Kaffe CVS cvs-commits at kaffe.org
Fri Jul 9 19:52:37 PDT 2004


PatchSet 4923 
Date: 2004/07/10 02:48:04
Author: jserv
Branch: HEAD
Tag: (none) 
Log:
Update Qt AWT backend and gcjwebplugin information.

Members: 
	ChangeLog:1.2488->1.2489 
	WHATSNEW:1.33->1.34 
	FAQ/FAQ.awt:1.8->1.9 

Index: kaffe/ChangeLog
diff -u kaffe/ChangeLog:1.2488 kaffe/ChangeLog:1.2489
--- kaffe/ChangeLog:1.2488	Sat Jul 10 01:58:26 2004
+++ kaffe/ChangeLog	Sat Jul 10 02:48:04 2004
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 2004-07-10  Jim Huang  <jserv at kaffe.org>
 
+	* FAQ/FAQ.awt:
+	Update some information about Qt AWT backend.
+	
+	* WHATSNEW:
+	Add new entry for gcjwebplugin
+
+2004-07-10  Jim Huang  <jserv at kaffe.org>
+
 	* libraries/clib/awt/qt/imggif.cc,
 	libraries/clib/awt/qt/imgjpeg.cc,
 	libraries/clib/awt/qt/imgpng.cc:
Index: kaffe/WHATSNEW
diff -u kaffe/WHATSNEW:1.33 kaffe/WHATSNEW:1.34
--- kaffe/WHATSNEW:1.33	Wed Jul  7 08:46:39 2004
+++ kaffe/WHATSNEW	Sat Jul 10 02:48:04 2004
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 * Verifier moved to its own directory.
 * JNI upgrades to 1.2
 * KJC fixes.
+* Added GNU EmbbededWindow extension from GNU Classpath.
+  * gcjwebplugin is known to work with the extension.
 
 What's New in Kaffe 1.1.3
 ------------------------------------------------------
Index: kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.awt
diff -u kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.awt:1.8 kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.awt:1.9
--- kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.awt:1.8	Wed Jun  4 09:45:45 2003
+++ kaffe/FAQ/FAQ.awt	Sat Jul 10 02:48:03 2004
@@ -53,8 +53,8 @@
 * --with-awt=qt
 
   a Qt based AWT backend. It uses Trolltech's cross-platform graphical
-  library. It works with Qt 3 and Qt 2, embedded or x11 version. It
-  should also work with Qtopia. 
+  library. It works with Qt 3 and Qt 2, Qt/Embedded or Qt/X11 version. 
+  It should also work with Qtopia. 
 
   It may work with other versions of Qt 3 or Qt 2 (Win32, OS X), but
   it has not been tested in such configurations. If you can test it in
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
   You also have to make sure the moc compiler is in your $PATH. It can
   usually be found in the bin directory of your Qt installation. If
   you can not find it, you need to install the developer version of the
-  Qt libraries. How to do that is system dependant, on Linux you may
+  Qt libraries. How to do that is system dependent, on Linux you may
   have to get a libqt3-developer package for your distribution, or
   compile Qt from scratch.
 
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@
   Linux, that means you may have to add the lib directory to
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
 
-  The Qt based AWT backend has been written by Murphy Chen and Ken-Hao
+  The initial Qt based AWT backend was written by Murphy Chen and Ken-Hao
   Liu from Dialogue Technologies, Inc.
 
   More information on Qt is available from http://www.trolltech.com.
@@ -140,7 +140,15 @@
     found by the linker. Putting QTDIR/lib in LD_LIBRARY_PATH might
     help.
 
-  * Qt-embedded AWT doesn't work in console
+  * Qt AWT backend can't show GIF images
+
+    Currently, Qt AWT backend handles all images routines via Qt
+    toolkit, and this behavior is totolly different to X AWT backend.
+    The GIF support is disabled by Qt's default configuration, and
+    you need to reconfigure to enable the feature if you would like
+    to let Qt AWT backend support it.
+
+  * Qt/Embedded AWT doesn't work in console
 
     You need to redirect the stdout and stderr streams so that they
     don't interfere with the framebuffer. The Qt based AWT
@@ -219,5 +227,5 @@
   fastest AWT implementation would use the native toolkit.
 
   Or go the other way around, and write an AWT implementation for a
-  cross platform graphical toolkit, like wxWindows, or SDL, bringing
+  cross platform graphical toolkit, like wxWidgets, or SDL, bringing
   AWT to platforms where no Qt or X11 are available.




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