That is why I explained I was using GWTCanvas from the gwt-incubator
project. Supposedly, it works with IE, at least, for what I need, I've
even been able to see it work in IE8 with their demo (of GWTCanvas
working in the gwt-incubator project). But for the life of me, I can't
get it to work myself in my own code...

On Sep 2, 11:49 am, Alexander Cherednichenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> IE does not support canvas well. You may use wrapper libraries, which
> dispatch output to canvas if possible, and for IE try to emulate it
> with VML.
>
> Here's blog posting about 
> this:http://lexaux.blogspot.com/2009/08/gwt-canvas-widget-drawing-in-brows...
>
> You can select among several libraries; make sure you create some
> prototypes before making a decision.
>
> I succeeded with GWT-Widgets canvas proof of concept widget.
>
> On Sep 2, 10:39 am, Xlorep DarkHelm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Umm... for anyone trying to see what I mean, I broke the app last
> > night, and I hope to have it running soon again this morning.
>
> > On Sep 1, 1:45 pm, Xlorep DarkHelm <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Ok.... I'm hitting a roadblock here, and I'm hoping that it is just
> > > something obvious that I'm unable to see.
>
> > > My situation is this -- I'm working on a simple web app, using GWT and
> > > the GWTCanvas widget from gwt-incubator.
>
> > > With the canvas, I am trying to draw little black squares, which
> > > represent values at a specific position in an array.
>
> > > To me, it is pretty straight-forward, I have a method:
>
> > > -----
>
> > >         public void draw(int row, int col, int color) {
> > >                 canvas.setFillStyle(Settings.colors[color]);
> > >                 canvas.fillRect(col * Settings.PIXEL_SIZE, row *
> > > Settings.PIXEL_SIZE, Settings.PIXEL_SIZE, Settings.PIXEL_SIZE);
> > >         }
>
> > > -----
>
> > > in my class that wraps the canvas. On every major browser other than
> > > IE (and I can only test with IE8... which might make a difference, I
> > > dunno...), this works exactly as I'd expect.
>
> > > In IE... it never draws anything. Like... at all. I see that my code
> > > is running (I have some text which gets updated outside the canvas),
> > > but IE isn't drawing, well... anything. This somewhat leaves my little
> > > app as pretty useless for people who visit using IE.
>
> > > Like I said... I'm hoping that it is something I'm just plain missing
> > > here. The address to my app is:
>
> > >http://showsort.appspot.com
>
> > > I'm not really trying anything elaborate with the canvas in this...
> > > just drawing some squares on it.
>
> > > Any help would be most appreciated.
>
> > > I can provide other code if it helps...
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