early AWT implementations were very different. Some still are. Unfortunately, AWT leaves a lot up to the JRE implementation. SWING (JFC) classes do the rendering in Java, which makes them a lot more consistent. Unix, Mac and Windows all have their quirks for AWT layout, still (as far as I know).
HTH. On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:08:44 -0700 (PDT) "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently received the Java source code for an application I've > been using for a while, and want to fix some of the glitches that > have been bugging me. I've gotten most of them, but two are being > obstinate. > > The original author was on a Mac, and did not have the problems > I'm having. I wonder how to fix these, and wonder if I'm facing > something inherent in recent versions of Java for Linux. I say > recent, because the problems are not present in earlier JDKs or > SDKs. Some things I've fixed because the original code wasn't > quite doing the portable thing. Some I fixed by putting in > preferences. These two remain unsolved. > > My Java is 1.4.1_02-b06, it says. > > Anyway, the problems: > > 1) The File Open dialogs now show files in the native order, > unsorted. This makes it quite hard to find files in some of > my directories with hundreds of files. > > 2) I'm having trouble making the GridBag thingy work. I've > got one sub-window that's way narrow, and can only get it > to widen a small amount, despite giving *500 weight to its > constraint. The overall layout is like this: > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > | 1 | 4 | > | | | > |---------------------------------------------------| | > | 2 | | > | | | > |---------------------------------------------------| | > | 3 | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > | | | > |----------------------------------------------------------| > | 5 | > | | > | | > |----------------------------------------------------------| > > > My problems are the width of panel 4 and the height of panel 5. > Panels 1 and 2 are single rows of buttons. Panel 3 has some > scalable graphics but don't seem to be the problem, because > they have a fixed aspect ratio and I can keep them narrow or short. > Panels 4 and 5 are text. Panel 3 seems to suck up all the > available space in spite of the contents remaining in that fixed > aspect ratio. > > Anybody know where to get help with this, or even better, have > a clue what the answer will be? > > ++ kevin > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
