[The Java Posse] Re: A simple cross-platform Google Drive client as a swing app? Time for a hackaton... :o)

2012-05-15 Thread fcassia
On Apr 30, 2:49 pm, phil swenson phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote: You know what would be a good PR boost for Java on the client?  A java UI that didn't feel sluggish.  Been 15+ years and I'm still waiting for a speedy Java UI. Strange. I use muCommander daily. http://ho.io/mu-commander And

[The Java Posse] Re: A simple cross-platform Google Drive client as a swing app? Time for a hackaton... :o)

2012-05-15 Thread fcassia
On May 1, 1:46 pm, phil swenson phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote: I can't comment on JavaFX of course, never looked at it. This looks interesting... calling JavaFX APIs from Pure Java apps. http://marxsoftware.blogspot.com.ar/2011/12/pure-java-javafx-20-menus.html FC -- You received this

[The Java Posse] Re: A simple cross-platform Google Drive client as a swing app? Time for a hackaton... :o)

2012-05-15 Thread fcassia
On Apr 30, 2:02 am, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: It'd be a punch in the face if the program also included some sort of statement about that with a single java client, there's no need to do separate versions for each OS like Google does... :) I think, if there really were

[The Java Posse] Re: Looking for a Java / JavaFX 3D sphericals panoramas viewer

2010-03-27 Thread fcassia
On Mar 18, 7:45 pm, Fabrizio Giudici fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/18/10 19:17 , Fernando Cassia wrote: Now, the bulk of the work is done by the LENS... so... Isn愒 this an opportunity for someone to create a great, 100% Pure Java

[The Java Posse] Re: Joe's R/C Copter

2010-01-14 Thread fcassia
On Jan 5, 9:56 am, Jack jackg...@gmail.com wrote: Is it anything like this one by any chance? (Possibly NSFW)http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/b527/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbnySBqioB0 FC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups The Java Posse

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Acquires JavaFX Codec Provider

2009-08-12 Thread fcassia
On Aug 5, 3:21 pm, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: Should Snoracle decide to go after Google (Android, GWT...), they now have a hefty bomb in their arsenal too. Cynical interpretation perhaps, but business is business and it was a great lesson from the cold war. /Casper

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Acquires JavaFX Codec Provider

2009-08-12 Thread fcassia
On Aug 7, 11:54 am, Chris Adamson invalidn...@gmail.com wrote: At a more abstract level, Google could and should be concerned that so much video on the web is in a proprietary format that's beyond their control (i.e., Flash).  They may intend to use On2's codecs (not just the dated Theora,

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Acquires JavaFX Codec Provider

2009-08-12 Thread fcassia
On Aug 9, 10:14 am, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, I think this acquisition is clearly related to HTML5's video and audio tags, the inability of mostly apple to get their shit together in regards to Theora. The problem is: One of apple's complaints is actually a fair

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Acquires JavaFX Codec Provider

2009-08-12 Thread fcassia
On Aug 11, 9:04 am, Joe Data karsten.s...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 9, 9:14 am, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is: One of apple's complaints is actually a fair point: On mobile devices, theora sucks, bad. I think that mobile devices can only efficiently decode

[The Java Posse] Re: Google Acquires JavaFX Codec Provider

2009-08-12 Thread fcassia
On Aug 11, 7:52 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot reini...@gmail.com wrote: The second reason is market share. Buying the company that built the basis of the codec seems a good a sign as any to say: *WE* take this thing seriously, hardware manufacturers! I love the approach. I just wish it were Sun

[The Java Posse] Java 6, font antialiasing, and LCDs - low priority RFE for 1.5 years

2009-07-20 Thread fcassia
I read this... agreed with the author's point, and proceeded to check out the bug filed in Sun's bugparade... one year and a half later, it's still open and marked as a RFE with priority low. :-( Java 6, font anti-aliasing, and brain-dead API... http://www.xenoveritas.org/node/367 In the words

[The Java Posse] ICMP from pure java

2009-07-20 Thread fcassia
(Name of the firm removed to protect the guilty, this comes from the firm's spokesperson) 1. Font smoothing is planned for {} in an upcoming release. 2. {} is not opened maximized based on customer preferences. Many users have large display screens and do not like maximized windows.

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun should bring Project Semplice back to life - or release the source

2009-02-20 Thread fcassia
On Feb 20, 1:07 pm, Bill Robertson billrobertso...@gmail.com wrote: Did Semplice offer all of the COM integration? If not then it wouldn't really work in the entire VB ecosystem, so I don't understand how it could replace a legacy system. If it did then, its only going to run on Windows

[The Java Posse] Re: Sun should bring Project Semplice back to life - or release the source

2009-02-20 Thread fcassia
On Feb 19, 9:10 pm, robogeek reiki...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 19, 1:42 pm, Tor Norbye tor.nor...@gmail.com wrote: Releasing it is not going to be easy. There's a whole open source review thing you've gotta go through when you open source stuff - it took a long time for the JDK, and