ANNOUNCE: Java-GNOME Release 2.5.7 (beta2)

[Jeffrey Morgan <Jeffrey Morgan BristolWest com>]

The java-gnome team is pleased to announce the latest development 
release of the java-gnome bindings.  This release requires libgnomeui 
2.5.92 or higher and/or gtk 2.4.  

Java-GNOME is API Frozen and we are approaching our official 2.6
release date.  If you are interested in developing GTK/GNOME applications
using Java we would like to invite you to take the time to look
at this project.  There are numerous examples as well as a tutorial
to help you get started.  To read about this project or report issues
please see the java-gnome site at http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net.


Here is a listing of what has changed since the last release:

2.5.7 (2.6 Beta 2)
Updated Classes:
  glib.CustomEvents - Reverted implementation to original implementation
plus a
    fix for the update bug. (far better performance when adding events)
[Mark Howard]
  glib.Boxed & glib.GObject - implemented hashCode & equals methods  [Jonas
Berlin]
  glib.Enum & glib.Flags - Fixed memory leak in equals method  [Jonas
Berlin]
  gdk.Color - Fixed handle allocation bug  [Jonas Berlin]
  gdk.Drawable - added the following methods:  [Jeffrey Morgan]
    drawRGBImage
    drawRGBImageDitherAlign
    drawRGB32Image
    drawRGB32ImageDitherAlign
    drawGrayImage
    drawIndexedImage
    drawPolygon
    drawDrawable
    drawImage
    drawPoints
    drawSegments
    drawLines
    drawGlyphs
    drawLayoutLine
    drawLayout
    drawLayoutLineWithColors
    drawLayoutWithColors
  gtk.ComboBox - fixed problem with no-op constructor so it now uses
    simpler API when not supplying model  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.ComboBoxEntry - fixed problem with no-op constructor so it now uses
    simpler API when not supplying model  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.Expander - fixed signature of native set_expanded method  [Jeffrey
Morgan]
  gtk.FileChooserDialog - updated API due to gtk change  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.FileChooserWidget - updated API due to gtk change  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.Item - fixed bug with no-op constructor setting up events prior
    object creation  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.TextBuffer - fixed selectRange method [Mark Howard]
  gtk.TextView 
    - fixed set/get acceptsTab/overwrite [Mark Howard]
    - Fixed problem when creating TreeView via glade  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.ToolButton - fixed bug when handling null Icons in object creation.
[Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.ToolItem - fixed bug that caused failure in creating subclasses Fixes
#917565 
    [Jeffrey Morgan]
  gtk.TreeIter - Fixed bug in TreeIter object construction. Fixes: #914500
[Mark Howard]
  gtk.UIManager 
    - fixed object creation bug  [Jeffrey Morgan]
    - enabled event handling  [Jeffrey Morgan] 
  glib.Value - Fixed Pixbuf handling [Mark Howard]
Updated Interfaces:
  gtk.FileChooser - updated API due to gtk change  [Jeffrey Morgan]
Other:
  - Added dynamic loading of gconf and gtkhtml libraries.  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  - fixed gnome api doc linkoffline setting		
  - Updated example applications to use new widgets.
  - Removed all empty generated JNI/C files.  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  - Added tutorial examples to eclipse classpath  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  - Updated the tutorial to reflect new API  [Jeffrey Morgan]
  - Fixed native widget to multiple java object mapping problems (and hence
    memory leak)
  - Fixed memory leak with Strings in signals [Mark Howard]
  - Fixed event intialisation [Mark Howard]
  - Added shell script to help run example apps [Mark Howard]



An all-in-one package is available on the java-gnome site and
individual modules are available on the gnome ftp site.

All-in-one
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/java-gnome/java-gnome-2.5.7.tar.bz2?downl
oad

libgtk-java:
Bindings for: GTK+, glib, atk, pango, gdk
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgtk-java/2.3/libgtk-java-2.3.7.tar
.gz

libgnome-java:
Bindings for: libgnome, libgnomeui, libgnomecanvas
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgnome-java/2.5/libgnome-java-2.5.7
.tar.gz

libgconf-java
Bindings for: gconf
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libgconf-java/2.5/libgconf-java-2.5.7
.tar.gz

libglade-java
Bindings for: libglade
Tarball:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/libglade-java/2.3/libglade-java-2.3.7
.tar.gz













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