That would be my guess as well (the lightweight embedded toolkit thingy)... Espial (where I work) does a lot of embedded Java work, and we've done something similar with our Espresso toolkit. Or so I've been told. I'm just the hardware/Linux guy... ;) - Mike K. On Tuesday 01 May 2001 11:59, Doug Sutherland wrote: > 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" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org > please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to
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