I checked out Escher (pure Java X-Windows libraries) and tried it out. This is an interesting beastie. Interesting because Java already has AWT (abstract window toolkit) and Swing (Java GUI components/framework). Since Java already has every kind of window and widget and event manager that I can think of, and it works on x-windows (plus windows etc) I don't see much point in writing Java code with an X library. I am trying to imagine an application for this, and the only thing I can think of is recreating your own lightweight AWT-like window toolkit, or perhaps a window manager written in Java. Does anyone have any idea what one might use Escher for, considering that Java already sits on top of X and has AWT/Swing? Minimal embedded GUIs perhaps? The point of AWT/Swing was to make it so you don't have to use the X protocol directly ... -- Doug Eric wrote: > Hmm....just happened to stumble upon this thing here, whic I presume > would be of great interest to our resident Java person (Hi Doug!). > http://escher.sourceforge.net/ > > Escher is a collection of libraries for X Window System written purely > in Java. It consists of an X11 protocol implementation (similar to > xlib for C/C++), and its extensions such as GLX, the OpenGL rendering > protocol. -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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