On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I know I should RTFM but there are so many FMs to read :}
>so here are the questions that would make these java posts more
>understandable
>
>what is SWING?
Pure java GUI. It is *not* platform dependent. Just download Swing and use it
on Linux or w95/8. It provides some very useful enhancements at the expense of
speed. Java AWT apps run ok on a P75 but if you use swing you need at
least a P166 - IMHO and assuming you are using intel hardware!.
>what is lesstiff (i understand its a linux(3) command but what does it do,
Cheesh!! tricky one!
Unlike micro$oft stuff, GNU/Liinux is built layer by layer by people who take
pride in what they are doing -and used by people who appreciate what has been
done for them - XFree86 is the layer which allows programmes to display
themselves in a window on a graphics screen, but it doesn't define any of the
normal windows furniture such as buttons, scroll bars etc. If you were to
write an x application you would need to either code all this stuff up - which
is probably crazy -or use some preexisting library. Metrolink Motif is a well
used UN*X libray to do this sort of stuff, but it is a commercial product..
You can use Motif provided you have paid for the product and distribute
statically linked binaries to anyone. Alternatively, you can distribute
dynamically linked binaries or the source code to anyone who already owns
Motif. Lesstif is an attemp to do everyting that Motif does, but for free.
As far as I am aware the Blackdown JDK is developed
using the Motif Libraries and distributed as statically linked binaries. I
understand there may be attempts to port the JDK using Lesstif.
>Why does every other post talk about it.
Who knows? OK -- It's to do with the principles of free software on which
Linux is being built. Lesstif is free - under the terms of the GNU general
public license - (don't quote me on that), but Motif is commerical and Java
itself is ???... sort of free. Free as in free speech not free beer. -
or as they call it nowadays, Open Source.
>What is the diffrence between java 1.1.7 and 1.2
Just the next release of Java really - but - It includes Swing and some other
stuff as standard rather than as an add-on as with jdk1.1. However, Sun have
decided that java 1.2 is now called java 2, which must really piss off book
publishers, my local bookshop is full of books about java 1.2. Oops!!
>I intend to write some kind of z80 emulator in java, Any ways of doing this
>properly.
Cool! I have a Sinclair ZX81 stashed away in the cupboard somewhere, will I
still be able to write machine code into line zero :->
>how do you start thinking in Objects and not functions and variables.
Use the force Luke ------******----
Nah - I started with Java a year ago when the books I was reading about it all
were advising about how to migrate from C, C++, but I had only experience in
Visual Basic. It was a steep learning curve but well worth it. -- coming soon
- WhiteStar -Java Choropleth Mapping Application
>Which is the quickest way to get java certified, is it easy?
Just say no - to sanity...
>Do people program in Java for the love of Java or for the money, or for the
>love of money?
For the love of coding, what else do you need?
>Whats the meaning of life?
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>
>Regards
>Mo
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Hope you don't mind this overblown reply, but it's only 3 hours past new year
in my part of the world and I'm sad enough to be replying to a post on this
list. Oh well - here's to the millenium bug....
Tony Atkin
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