Olivier Bornet wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > I've got some questions regarding Waba.  Micah Dowty of the PicoGUI project
> > said there was a port of Waba to make it usable with PicoGUI. Can you tell
> > me how much has been done and if I can use Waba for applications under
> > PicoGUI?  Can i access PicoGUI widgets?  Is the library to let Waba programs
> > run on PicoGUI done?  Is the library to let Waba access the PicoGUI API
> > done?
> 
> Well... At this time, we are porting the core Waba to PicoGUI. At the
> end of this port, the current Waba applications can be used on
> Linux/PicoGUI without modifications. We are in a good way, but some
> things are not finished (clipping, use of the Image class, better
> handling of fonts...)
> 
> The access to the PicoGUI widgets (or a derivative) is not started for
> the moment. Same for accessing the PicoGUI API.


May I just add this:

- currently the Waba port using PicoGUI mimics the Waba Palm port, i.e.
  the object model is the ui and fx classes. Widgets are drawn by the VM
  directly in a pgui canvas. Layout is extremely simple, mostly by placing
  widgets at absolute coordinates; rendering does not therefore benefit
  from the theme system. The whole looks very Palm-ish.

- having an object model that better uses the features of the underlaying
  GUI system is slightly more complex, as one should either invent an
  appropriate object model, or better, implement a standard one. Shane
  Nay has done a port of AWT for another VM (not WABA). Let me also
  mention the MIDp object model from Sun Microsystems, which has
  currently no known port on Waba.

Regards,

  Pascal


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