Re: Blackdown JDK vs Sun JDK

1999-12-08 Thread Mark O'Donohue
> Another big Ditto from me. > > James Seigel wrote: > > > I think this group knows who to credit for the work in the trenches when no one > > else was supporting us developers on the Linux platform. As always I give thanks > > to blackdown for their supreme efforts to make this real! > > I al

Re: Java and Enlightenment

1999-10-01 Thread Mark O'Donohue
> > Here is my $.02: > > > The problem I have with java and (possibly) Enlightenment is that presetting the window location before the window is displayed does not work and they all appear in the top left hand corner. I had some code that would do a setLocation to the middle of the screen before

A personal view of the -mx and -oss options

1999-08-13 Thread Mark O'Donohue
Just a note that these two options peeve me off, particularly under 1.2 beta, where the default is set pretty low. Virtual memory was invented so we don't have to worry about this sort of thing. My Swing applications just about all need a memory setting and some of my other number cruncher app

Swing doesnt seem to work with 32bit X11 colour depth.

1999-08-13 Thread Mark O'Donohue
ther program is less informative and just tells me that it can't find the MetalLookAndFeel class. At the moment I'll change back to what I had before (it was either 16 or 24) where it worked. Regards Mark O'Donohue Here is the XF86Config setting, # The accelerated serv

Re: placing a java frame at the desired place?

1999-07-21 Thread Mark O'Donohue
Hi There is apparently a bug in linux lesstif, (its logged at blackdown) that makes this so if you set the variables before the window is shown. I have taken to doing a setLocation after having done the setVisible(true), it pops up at the top of the screen and the moves to the center, ugly I know

Bug: in jdk1.2 FileChooser not choosing files

1999-07-20 Thread Mark O'Donohue
Hi I have been having problems using JFileChooser, it was not returning files that had been selected (sometimes it would /sometimes it wouldn't). Often about 1 in 3 selections would work. The problem happens only with native threads using green threads works. I believe it is probably related

Re: Swing API

1999-07-14 Thread Mark O'Donohue
Hi Yep it works fine, you need the solaris download, extract the file swingall.jar and place it in your classpath. I believe the latest release swing 1.1 beta3 is the last that will be backported to run on jdk1.1 all others will run only on 1.2. There is doco at the swing connection which desc