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41 <title>Swing based AWT peers</title>
44 <h1>Swing based AWT peers.</h1>
45 <p>This package defines an abstract set of AWT peers that is based on Swing
46 widgets. This can be used as an implementation base for peer implementors
47 who don't have access to native widgets or who want to build a quick
48 prototype of a peer set without implementing all of the AWT widgets.
50 <p>An actual implementation would have to provide the following:
52 <li>A concrete implementation of {@link java.awt.Toolkit}, possibly based
53 on {@link SwingToolkit}. This implementation must provide all the missing
54 methods of the <code>SwingToolkit</code>.</li>
55 <li>Concrete implementations of {@link java.awt.peer.DialogPeer},
56 {@link java.awt.peer.FramePeer} and {@link java.awt.peer.WindowPeer},
57 ideally based on their <code>SwingXXXPeer</code> counterparts.
58 Some methods must be specially
59 overridden in those peers to provide useful functionality, like
60 <code>getLocationOnScreen()</code>. See the API documentation for more
62 <li>An implementation of {@link java.awt.Image}. These must be provided by
63 the toplevel component peers.</li>
64 <li>An implementation of {@link java.awt.Graphics}. This must also be
65 provided by the toplevel peers.</li>
66 <li>An implementation of {@link java.awt.Font}. This must be
67 provided by the toolkit.</li>