On 06.03.2008 21:04:56 Cameron McCormack wrote: > Jeremias Maerki: > > Indeed. I actually thought about the IE plug-in myself recently but I've > > had enough of the Win32 dev platform (and C and ObjectPascal) that I'm > > not going to bother. I think this would make a perfect GSoC project, > > however. > > I’ve been thinking on and off about the plugin thing for a while. Two > approaches came to mind: > > * write a simple ActiveX component (or however you do it these days, > I’m not very familiar with Win32/COM/.NET stuff) that communicates > with Batik in a JVM, and paints the component with renderings from > Batik and forwards events from the component to Batik; or
I'd do it this way if I dared testing my nerves. If only Batik ran fine with Harmony already. In that case, the JVM could even be bundled with the plug-in. There would be no need to have a JRE pre-installed. > * compile Batik with gcj and GNU classpath and use that by the ActiveX > component. Based on my past experience, GNU Classpath might not be up to the task to handle Batik. Good, that might have changed in the meantime. My last experiments were over a year ago. An additional idea is to compile to a .NET DLL using IKVM but that wouldn't work either, as AFAIK the AWT peers are incomplete. > > Anyway, volunteers and patches are always welcome! Good ideas are > > already here. ;-) > > Yep. :) > > I haven’t quite decided yet if I have the time to mentor a GSoC student > this year. Same here. I'd never take two at the same time again, but maybe one... Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
