Re: More questions from a newbie

1998-12-31 Thread Tony
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 w

bug in reflection API?

1998-12-31 Thread nagendra mishr
I think that the reflection in the JVM on linux is failing somehow. I have a static method in a class which sets a static boolean to true. This static method is called from static void main(String arg[]); Reflection calls the static method in the class, however the static variable it has set se

JDB Problems Further Documented

1998-12-31 Thread Ryan Sutter
JDB keeps crashing on me when I run my app. Here is the complete session, possibly containing some piece of information that can give a clue as to what's wrong: [rsutter@dell1607 rsutter]$ jdb -classpath /usr/bin/jdk117_v1a/lib/classes.zip:/home/rsutter/work/wambase/wamware/packages:/windows/jdk

Re: More questions from a newbie

1998-12-31 Thread Alex Rice
On Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:09:24 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: M.Patel> How do you start thinking in Objects and not functions and Try _Thinking in Java_ by Bruce Eckel. It's available in print or on-line from www.mindview.net. Alex Rice

Re: More questions from a newbie

1998-12-31 Thread Christopher Hinds
Sounds like you have a lot of manuals to read!!!   A lightweight GUI framework developed by SUN , IBM and NETSCAPE. Using the new JDK 1.1  event model and an MVC design , the framework has a big preformance advantage over the pure AWT as well as being 100% pure java.

Re: diffs for i386/non-comm 1.2 sources.

1998-12-31 Thread Michael Emmel
This is funny when I worked on the 1.02 JDK port to NextStep I wrote a driver that allowed you to do DPS calles from Java. I felt it was th "way to go" Looks like Sun is moving in that direction. I suspect this is for Graphics2D support. The driver is Mach based so not that useful. But if Sun is

Re: a little better in GUI

1998-12-31 Thread Uncle George
THis remins me of someone else who renamed the libXm.a file into a libXm.so file. which u canna do. why did not the lesstif build take, it has worked for me gat Dave Harvill wrote: > > Okay, got a binary of lesstif, since the source wouldn't compile. I think > I installed it, I'm honestly not

Re: diffs for i386/non-comm 1.2 sources.

1998-12-31 Thread Uncle George
As i said i dont know ( knew ? ) about DPS. The call that uses DPS has been edited out ( ie no shared link undefines ) when this font/shared lib is loaded in. So now i know, so i'll see if its avail. gat Nathan Meyers wrote: > Gnu announced in May (http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull24.html) tha

RedHat/Kaffe/JDK FAQ

1998-12-31 Thread Robert Crawford
I just got email from a friend complaining about a problem that sounds suspiciously like the problem you get when you have Kaffe installed on a Redhat system and then install the Blackdown JDK. Apparently when he runs "java" he gets a complaint about a missing "libhello.so".

More questions from a newbie

1998-12-31 Thread M . Patel
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? what is lesstiff (i understand its a linux(3) command but what does it do, and why does every other post talk about it. What is the diffrence be