Re: Java question

2007-12-31 Thread Cay Horstmann
Beginner's luck, I guess. Try running javaws http://www.horstmann.com/violet/violet.jnlp to see what I mean. I ran jEdit, and indeed it works ok. I didn't have to do anything with Ctrl-n or Ctrl-p. The menus and dialogs all came up, just at weird places. Speed is acceptable, both on the device

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
Short answer Java GUI apps don't work with Matchbook yet. Long answer: Each Java Window will be a ful l creen display, use alt-n/alt-p to move between them. HOWEVER Layout doesn't work quite right, it thinks the window is much smaller then it really is. Pull down menus don't work at all.

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Cay Horstmann
Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: Short answer Java GUI apps don't work with Matchbook yet. Long answer: Each Java Window will be a ful l creen display, use alt-n/alt-p to move between them. HOWEVER Layout doesn't work quite right, it thinks the window is much smaller then it really

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Jeffrey Kesselman
On Dec 29, 2007 3:04 PM, Cay Horstmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is much worse than that for the two apps that I tried. In the WebStart app, there was a giant gray window containing only the Java Application banner. In the other app, there was an empty white window. Did you try ctl-n/ctl-p

Re: Java question

2007-12-29 Thread Cay Horstmann
Yes. Ctrl-n navigates to the completely white window. Once in there, neither Ctrl-n nor Ctrl-p do anything. Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: On Dec 29, 2007 3:04 PM, Cay Horstmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is much worse than that for the two apps that I tried. In the WebStart app, there was a

Java question

2007-12-28 Thread Cay Horstmann
I am trying to find out how to run Java GUI applications on the OLPC. I installed Java by downloading and executing jre-6u3-linux-i586-rpm.bin It works--if I ssh -X into the machine from a Linux box, I can successfully run Java Web Start applications such as /usr/java/jre1.6.0_03/bin/javaws