My goal is to use Java libraries to paint on an X11 window. The problem is I want to do this on a window that already exists and that I know the window ID of it. I've done this with C and Rust, but would like to use Java now.
I can find in AWT where it creates a window and gets a window ID: https://github.com/openjdk/client/blob/master/src/java.desktop/unix/classes/sun/awt/X11/XBaseWindow.java#L380
I believe that "injecting" the ID here would go a long way to accomplishing the goal.
How should I go about changing this behavior? I've tried making classes to extend the relevant AWT classes, but run into problems with my code not being in the right package. [1]
I've tried reflection, but get stuck with the XFramePeer object and can't access any fields/methods of it's superclass. [2]
Yes, I understand this may be a fool's errand.
Code samples: 1: In Java - https://github.com/robbieh/AWTForeignXWindow 2: In Clojure - https://gist.github.com/robbieh/c4662690abff19fc1cca12decd9b486e
After two years I have an answer, using JNA but bypassing AWT windows. Here's a repo demonstrating it in Clojure in case anyone else comes looking here later.