Wayland support for JavaFX

[David Hill]

On 1/29/15, 3:47 PM, Erik De Rijcke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking at running javafx on wayland ( http://wayland.freedesktop.org
> ). First of all, I was wondering if anyone else knows of any attempts to
> avoid duplicate work, as for now google turns op empty.
>
> Secondly, I'm looking for sources on how to write a new javafx platform.
> Google points me to monocle and it's *Platform implementations. Are there
> other sources of documentation or pointers or 'must-known's?
>
> I already made wayland java bindings (
> https://github.com/Zubnix/wayland-java-bindings ) and wrote a simple
> wayland compositor ( https://github.com/Zubnix/westmalle ) all in pure
> Java. So the wayland part is already covered.
>
> Thanks in advance, I'll update this post with my progressions.

I am not aware of anyone doing a wayland port yet. It certainly should be a reasonable thing to do, using Glass/Monocle, we already support a similar setup with EGL->Framebuffer and Software -> Framebuffer.

Glancing at your wayland-java-bindings I see mention of EGL :-)

Note however, Monocle does its own "windows" virtually. Wayland was designed as a composition as well as a framebuffer engine. Monocle will want to create a mono native window which acts as our display, that we then render onto.

Note that Monocle supports a number of platforms and rendering paths, starting in PlatformFactory.

Which hardware are you going to try this on ?

Dave


>
> Erik


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