I've read on this list that the Blackdown port of 1.3 is expected around first quarter next year, so in the meantime I thought I'd have a quick shot at trying to merge the Swing fixes in 1.3 over to the Blackdown 1.2 pre-v2. I've been developing on NT the past few months, and the bugs with JTextPanes and printing in 1.2 were agonising until they were blessedly removed in 1.3. I know nothing about the implementation of java and one person on this list did say that it wouldn't be simple, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to give it a go. By compiling just the 1.3 source for JTextPanes and the look-and- feel stuff I've got a sort of 'hybrid' system which seems to have fixed the JTextPane bugs and I can now print, where I couldn't before. However my 'print preview' application code (which printed to an extended JComponent) doesn't work, because it expects a Graphics2D object to be presented to its paint() method, but my 1.3 hybrid passes it just a Graphics object instead. Since the preview function also failed under the normal Blackdown 1.2 as well (reference to a null pointer (by the way it *does* work properly with 1.3 on NT!)) I guess I'm still ahead, but I thought I'd ask this list for any quick pointers on how/where a component derives its Graphics object for painting. I've had a look through the Swing and AWT code but it's totally beyond me; hopefully those who have ported java might be able to give me some hints. In the Blackdown 1.2 pre-v2 a JComponent gets passed a BufferedImageGraphics2D object when its paint() object is called; with my 1.3 Swing mixture my paint() method gets a SwingGraphics object instead! Anyone out there have any idea of why this is so, or give me an idea as to where I can look? I know this is beyond the 'responsibility' of the Blackdown porters, but since there are people on this list who know lots about the mechanics of java's implementation I didn't think it would hurt to ask. Thanks, Brad Rosser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
