[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Odonata

[From: S. Meslin-Weber]

Hi Philippe,

(posting this on maemo, only just noticed you'd posted to both lists)

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:45:37PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:

[snip]

> How is Odonata doing? It doesn't have a mailing list. I've contacted the
> author, but can people share their experience with Odonata, whether the
> info on the page is current (especially, are TextComponents and
> keyboard working?), and lastly, whether anyone has successfully run it on
> the 770.

Odonata is a little dormant at the moment, the past month (and a bit)
have been particularly hectic for me and I haven't had much time to
devote to its development.

One thing you should bear in mind when thinking of Odonata is that it is
a set of AWT *peers*. This means that it can only be used within a fully
functional AWT implementation (such as that provided by GNU Classpath or
Sun's class library).

Odonata as it currently stands in my local svn tree is still far from
complete, although some work has been done towards text input, it's not
been a priority.

The latest addition to Odonata was a new Font rendering framework using
BDF 2.3 (1,2,4 and 8-bit bitmapped fonts) - the underlying parser is
being integrated into JNode for things like console font rendering, as
an alternative to TTF rendering.

Work will continue on the main Odonata once I settle down a little more
at my new workplace. Now if only I could find someplace that paid me to
work on Odonata :)

Best Regards,

Steph

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Stephane Meslin-Weber         Email: steph at tangency.co.uk
Senior Software Engineer      Web: http://odonata.tangency.co.uk
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