hg: macosx-port/macosx-port/jdk: Adding initial implementation of Lightweight AWT, Cocoa app startup, font support, and OpenGL graphics pipeline.

[Mike Swingler]

On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:12 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:

> 2011/4/1 Michael Hall <mik3hall at gmail.com>:
> 
>> On Mar 31, 2011, at 8:57 PM, Mike Swingler wrote:
>> 
>>> t's a primitive AWT stack that handles drawing things like SwingSet fine, but it is far from complete (which is why it is gated behind and environment variable right now). See the status page for more info as it evolves: <http://wikis.sun.com/display/OpenJDK/Mac+OS+X+Port+Project+Status>.
>> 
>> Thanks, that looks good for monitoring status. Looking forward to notifications of things to try.
> 
> Very good news.
> 
> Thanks guys, happy to see this work-in-progress.
> 
> Any estimated date for a more complete AWT port ? IDE makers are
> certainly impatient to test it.

I can't give any firm commitment, but I'm aiming to have enough pieces in place within a month to flip the default toolkit to the Cocoa one.

Mike Swingler
Java Engineering
Apple Inc.