Hello,
Please review a fix for http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8005465 at:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/8-52-startOnFirstThreadCheck-8005465.0/
With this fix AWT can be embedded into other GUI toolkits. Specifically,
this fix is needed in order to be able to initialize and run AWT after
an FX application has already been started.
We achieve this by:
1. Eliminating a check for the -XstartOnFirstThread presence. It doesn't
make sense to check this flag because the AWT initializer is able to do
its job on any thread anyway. The only change in logic is that we no
longer call the NSApplicationLoad() function, but it isn't necessary
since we're not going to be embedded into a Carbon app anyway - all
modern toolkits are Cocoa-based, and we assume that the embedder has
already created its NSApplication instance. If not, well, they'll have
to live with the NSApplicationAWT then.
2. Introducing an AWTKeepAlive thread activated in the embedded mode
only. This thread will send an event to the native event queue every
500ms as long as there are active AWT objects present. This activity
will notify the embedder toolkit that the Java application as a whole is
still alive and needs not exit yet.
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best regards,
Anthony
