Hello Qt4 AWT
Sven has been working on a new set of AWT peers for GNU Classpath based on Qt4. They look nice and have already helped find issues in our generic AWT code and our other gtk+ peer code.
Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Copy/Paste
Finally did some coding again: That is some text copy/pasted from xchat, an image from gimp, a Serialized object from another program and a file list from eclipse. It is nice to have all these programs interoperate so nicely with our awt.datatransfer.
jRate – realtime gcj
Interesting project on sourceforge. jRate an extension of the GCJ compiler front-end and runtime system which adds support for most of the features required by the RTSJ real-time specification.
Kaffe –enable-jvmpi
Guilhem made JMP work with kaffe. JMP is a profiler for java that can be used to trace objects usage and method timings. JMP uses the JVMPI interface to gather statistics and interact with the JVM. JMP uses a GTK+ interface to show the status. And it is released under the GPL! A few pictures […]
Thanks a Million!
David Gilbert gave us some good news: And Andrew Haley quoted some wise words: When a very well-known and widely respected computer scientist recently used [lines of code as a measure of] programmer productivity in a lecture, the suggestion came from the audience that, instead of talking about “the lines of code produced” we should […]
GNU Classpatchy 0.17
Weeee! This is mainly a bug fix release for issues found with eclipse 3.1 and Free Swing applications just after our 0.16 release. But it also includes some exciting new features. XML DOM, XPATH and XSL fixes. Free Swing is much more responsive. JInternalFram, JTree, JMenu, JTable, JButton and JFileChooser fixes. FileChannel lock and force […]
CACAO “Tomclipse”
Played a bit with the latest Cacao Tomclipse release. This runtime has matured nicely. It is way more stable then the old 0.91 release. As the screenshot page shows real world applications now just work and on a wide range of processors (Alpha, i386, MIPS (64-bit), PowerPC (32-bit) and x86_64). And it actually is really […]
JTree is working upto par
Lillian checked in a JTree icons patch and says our JTree is now working “upto par”.
Relentless progress!
We released 0.16 (code name “Harmony”)! AWT GtkScrollBar and GtkImage improvements. All image operations are now working correctly. Graphics2D has been upgraded to use Cairo 0.5.x. Free Swing updates for 1.5 top-level compatibility. JTree interface completed. JFileChooser has been implemented. Completed implementations of BoxLayout, GrayFilter and SplitPane. Upgraded the Corba features to 1.3 and included […]