On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:00, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Maybe [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] will help you better than > me. I Cc them. > > Thanks for your time, > > Cheers, > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: James Damour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: GridBagLayout in kaffe CVS HEAD > Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 08:38:26 -0400 > > Hello!
Hi, > I am a developer of the MegaMek project > (http://megamek.sourceforge.net) and I'm trying to get MegaMek to run > under a free VM. So far, Kaffe is the most successful at running > MegaMek, but it has problems with laying out the windows. I was > wondering if you could help me debug the problem or point me to someone > who can. > > I've created a simple test case and I've attached it to this email. Thanks! David Jee is looking into this. > I > compile the code using both the jikes v1.18 that is in Debian Sarge > (with -bootclasspath is /usr/local/kaffe/jre/lib/rt.jar) and with kjc. > When I run under Blackdown JRE v1.3.1, I can see the text in all of the > buttons (and they're about 8 cm wide); when I run under Kaffe, the > buttons are too narrow (about 1 cm wide). As this email's title says, > I'm currently following Kaffe's HEAD branch, so I've gotten the > latest-and-greatest version of your Classpath. > > I'm willing to take whatever steps are necessary to resolve this issue, > but I'm not really sure where to start. Should I even try to work this > through with Kaffe? Should I try using the gcj AWT/Swing CVS branch > instead? Any insights that you may provide would be greatly > appreciated. > Yes, I would recommend working on GCJ's java-gui-branch, since that's where new AWT and Swing development is being done. I've done some work that makes setting up a GCJ-based GUI development environment pretty easy: http://people.redhat.com/fitzsim/gcj-and-jhbuild.html Do you already have an FSF copyright assignment? If not, you'll need to get one before you start submitting AWT/Swing patches. Good to hear you're interested in helping out! Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
