[kaffe] Kaffe on Nano - X and Swing

Kelvin Xu kyoxu at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 5 02:05:25 PST 2007


Hi,

What about Kaffe support for SWT? What backend can applications using SWT 
run on?

Regards,
Kelvin

>From: Dalibor Topic <robilad at kaffe.org>
>To: Kelvin Xu <kyoxu at hotmail.com>
>CC: kaffe at kaffe.org
>Subject: Re: [kaffe] Kaffe on Nano - X and Swing
>Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 11:04:28 +0100
>
>Kelvin Xu wrote:
>>Dear all,
>>
>>I tried reading through the archives but could not find related entries to 
>>the following simple questions.
>>Is Swing supported on Kaffe running on the Nano-X backend?
>
>Hi Kelvin,
>
>Swing is only supported on the gtk backend.
>
>You may be able to run Swing  applications on other backends using Sun's 
>old separate Swing implementation for Java 1.1. (it was called swing 
>1.1.1-FCS, I think), but since that implementation was not open source, 
>it's not possible to support it adequately.
>
>>
>>If not what awt does Swing works on? What packages are required
>
>You'll need to use the gtk peers, which are coming from GNU Classpath. They 
>require a recent version of the gtk libraries.
>
>cheers,
>dalibor topic

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