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External Widgets w/Java?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A Yon)
Tue Dec 12 16:48:14 1995
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 14:29:37 -0500
From: yon@world.std.com (David A Yon)
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Anyone have any experience in merging "unsupported" widgets into
AWT? For example, let's say you wanted to add a bubble-and-arrow drawing
surface to your Java app (complete with the ability to manually position
objects on the surface with drag-and-drop). Then let's suppose that you
found a good Motif widget on Sun and a good custom control on Win32 to do
this, and that they had reasonably similar semantic interfaces. How hard
would it be to write native methods on each platform which presented a
uniform Java class which manipulates and gets events from the
bubble-and-arrow widget?
Seems like since AWT does this for other "native" widgets like
buttons and text fields that you should be able to add other arbitrary
widgets.
Any insight welcome, especially from those who have actually hooked
into external widgets...
David
yon@world.std.com
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