[ECOS] GUI using the Framebuffer API

[Rutger Hofman]

On 08/03/2010 04:06 PM, Manuel Borchers wrote:
> Replying to myself, just for the record:
>>> http://www.ecosforge.net/ecosforge/branches/packages/microwindows-mergecvs/current/
...
>> I gave it a try, but failed. After commenting in some sys/select.h
>> includes, I got further, but I'm now failing with undefined 'nxSocket's
...
> So, my only option is to build my own GUI and UI stuff. Question about
> alternative GUI libs still stands, though ;)

We chose a slightly convoluted solution: use Java for the GUI -- we 
already had a Java app to do GUI stuff. I adapted and upgraded MiKa 
(formerly Wonka) to suit my needs. It has an AWT implementation that 
integrates quite nicely w/ the eCos framebuffer, and it has itself 
implemented fonts, shapes, widgets, etc etc. This MiKa JVM is spawned 
from the eCos C application. Like your microwindows port, the JVM seems 
to need a network stack.

However, all this is much work in progress, and it runs as a kind of 
background task in my work schedule -- other stuff crops up (with 
appearing hardware) that requires attention immediately. Thus, there are 
many aspects that are unimplemented, for example, shutting down the JVM; 
in fact, right now the JVM kills the eCos application at exit time, 
which won't be terribly hard to fix but I live easily w/ it right now.

Needless to say, this will make your application memory- and CPU-hungry 
(interpreter without JIT compiler, bunches of threads for small tasks 
like timeouts etc).

Anyway, our repository is public. If you are interested in giving it a 
try, or even in cooperating, let me know.

Rutger


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