<AWT Dev> [8] Review request for 8005465: [macosx] Evaluate if checking for the -XstartOnFirstThread is still needed in awt.m

[Artem Ananiev]

Hi, Anthony,

after the fix, setUpAWTAppKit() is not called in headless mode, while it 
was before. Could it be a problem?

Thanks,

Artem

On 1/15/2013 7:54 PM, Anthony Petrov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After discussing this fix off-line, we decided to start off with a
> minimal version of the fix that enables FX and AWT to run in headful
> mode, and be able to be initialized in any order. The new fix for
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8005465 is at:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~anthony/8-53-startOnFirstThreadCheck-minimal-8005465.0/
>
>
> There's some cleanup of the initialization procedure of AWT that makes
> it easier to follow. The most essential change is that AWT no longer
> throws an exception if it's started on the main thread and the
> -XstartOnMainThread hasn't been specified when running the app. This is
> to allow one to initialize the AWT from the AppKit thread (which is the
> FX User Thread on the Mac).
>
> There are still a few issues remain (specifically, 8006320 and 8006326),
> but they may require more time to investigate, and we need to back-port
> this fix to a 7 update release as soon as possible.
>
> The fix has been tested with FX for the desired use-case, as well as
> with SWT (thanks Petr!). No problems found.
>
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
>