Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 19:09:07 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Edward Ing" <inge1questions@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AWT with what window toolkit? Please correct me if I Message-ID: <199810200109.TAA08479@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <19981020004754.29188.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <19981020004754.29188.qmail@hotmail.com>
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> Please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that to see AWT > classes work you need to have the motif windowing tookit (or lesstif) if > you are not using a browser client, but a stand alone client. The JDK must be linked with Motif, yes. > What are the impediments to making AWT in its JDK form work on other > windowing systems like KDE? > 1. Is it the case that the JDK from Sun is coded with Motif and that the > difficulty is to write the AWT to use the KDE widgets(for example?) This is at least part of it. > 2. Or is it the case that Sun licensing will not allow someone to write > class to a different windowing system set? You'd have to take up the legalities with SUN, but I don't think any of us 'armchair' lawyers would have any idea if you could distribute such a modified JDK. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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