[kaffe] ppc: mouse keyboard problems with kaffe 1.1.7rc1

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Tue Mar 21 12:50:31 PST 2006


Hi Mark,

Am Freitag, 17. März 2006 09:41 schrieb Mark Wielaard:
> On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 20:05 +0100, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> > Next I wanted this on powerpc and tried
> >
> > b) kaffe-1.1.7rc1 (my Debian backport on ppc):
> > The go applet did display fine, but did not receive mouse or key events.
> > Out of curiousiy I went deeper into the problem and thought it might be
> > a ppc related problem, because it seemed to work on ia586 with seemingly
> > the same version.
>
> It would be nice if some kaffe hacker could explain the relation between
> these versions. Which came before the other and what is the default awt
> implementation for both?

The Mandriva version was packaged by Mandriva, so I do not know if other Kaffe 
people would know. I believe that gtk-peer is the default implementation, 
though.


> Yes, as far as I can see they are not platform specific. The mouse
> events issue seems to be solved now in a generic way. See:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26641

> > i) try to test another version of classpath. I am unsure how to do this
> > with kaffe without a new Debian version, so I might try jamvm, if this is
> > easier on Debian.

A test with jamvm and classpath 0.90 (Debian package) plus the patch,
makes the testcase work and the yahoo go applet receive mouse events.

Bernhard





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