Re: awt.geom tasks

[David Gilbert]

On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 19:39, Sven de Marothy wrote:
> Anton Kast <akast-gcp at coatimundi.net> wrote to Sascha Brawer:
> 
> >>I've been poking around in gnu classpath and lurking on the lists,
> >> and I've got some ambition to implement the unimplemented stuff in
> >> java.awt.geom, mainly Area and GeneralPath.  Your name is by these
> >> tasks on the tasklist.
> >>I've read the hacker guide.  Any further advice?  Is anyone currently
> >>working on this?
> 
> >Thanks for your interest, any help is of course greatly appreciated!
> >As far as I know, the state in CVS is quite current -- or does
> >anyone have Area and GeneralPath patches sitting on their disks?
> 
> I do. :-)
> My implementation of GeneralPath (together with the contains() and
> intersects() methods for curves) is all finished, but I've been
> waiting for the FSF paperwork to get done. (I don't know what they're
> up to, I gave them a polite ping a few days ago to see what's up..)
> 
> I've been doing some work on Area as well, which is indeed a rather
> tricky class. Currently it works for line-segment polygons, and I've
> also written the curve-curve-intersection code (perhaps the
> trickiest part) All in all it's a real monster of a class. 
> 
> So, avoiding a duplication of effort here would be a good idea.
> 
> /Sven

I have an interest in the Java2D API and would like to help out here,
probably just by doing some testing to start with.  A two week holiday
is imminent, but I'll catch up on any progress when I return.

Regards,
Dave.