On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 13:20 +0000, theUser BL wrote: > >On this branch I'd like to do several things: > > > >1) Make Graphics2D the default > >2) Remove Graphics > > What do you mean with this?
I meant remove GdkGraphics. > Does this mean, that Graphics is based on Graphics2D and so for plain AWT or > Swing programs Cairo is needed? > > I don't hope so. I have the hope, that it goes in any time the other way > around, that Graphics2D is based on Graphics and created with the plain > AWT-Graphics. Yes, inheritance in java.awt will work the same way, with Graphics2D inheriting from Graphics. It's just that we'll only have a peer that wraps Cairo and not a peer that wraps GDK drawing primitives. So the inheritance graph will be: Graphics <- Graphics2D <- CairoGraphics2D <- ... with the ... representing specialized graphics objects for different surfaces. > So it would also be easier to port free Javas to Windows and MacOSX. > Something like Sun does with its implementation. So that on Windows and > MacOSX "only" the bindings to GTK+ are ported to the Windows-API and the > Aqua-API. > But if Cairo is needed, it seems, that you also need later on Windows and > MacOSX Cairo. And that is something what I don't like. This rewrite will make the GTK AWT peers depend on GTK-2.8 which in turn depends on Cairo so avoiding a Cairo dependency is impossible if we want to move to newer GTK releases. Tom _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list Classpath@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
