I've recently received the Java source code for an application I've been using for a while, and want to fix some of the glitches that have been bugging me. I've gotten most of them, but two are being obstinate.
The original author was on a Mac, and did not have the problems I'm having. I wonder how to fix these, and wonder if I'm facing something inherent in recent versions of Java for Linux. I say recent, because the problems are not present in earlier JDKs or SDKs. Some things I've fixed because the original code wasn't quite doing the portable thing. Some I fixed by putting in preferences. These two remain unsolved. My Java is 1.4.1_02-b06, it says. Anyway, the problems: 1) The File Open dialogs now show files in the native order, unsorted. This makes it quite hard to find files in some of my directories with hundreds of files. 2) I'm having trouble making the GridBag thingy work. I've got one sub-window that's way narrow, and can only get it to widen a small amount, despite giving *500 weight to its constraint. The overall layout is like this: ------------------------------------------------------------ | 1 | 4 | | | | |---------------------------------------------------| | | 2 | | | | | |---------------------------------------------------| | | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| | 5 | | | | | |----------------------------------------------------------| My problems are the width of panel 4 and the height of panel 5. Panels 1 and 2 are single rows of buttons. Panel 3 has some scalable graphics but don't seem to be the problem, because they have a fixed aspect ratio and I can keep them narrow or short. Panels 4 and 5 are text. Panel 3 seems to suck up all the available space in spite of the contents remaining in that fixed aspect ratio. Anybody know where to get help with this, or even better, have a clue what the answer will be? ++ kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
