Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread Calvin Austin
There used to be issues with some window managers with the Sun JDK, but Blackdown and ourselves have fixed most if not all the issues. In the next release of the 1.3 Sun JDK most of the window managers we have tried sawfish, enlightenment, fvwm, kwm, twm behave correctly (if not log a bug) regar

Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread blue
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Julio Cesar Aguilar Cabrera wrote: > Is anyone succesfully using a light windowmanager & java? windowmaker, sawmill, or blackbox are all 'light' window managers with a decent degree of usefulness. nothing beats afterstep, tho, imho, for fast, light, and feature-rich. :) --

Re: mixing java pipes and unix-fifos?

2000-07-28 Thread Joi Ellis
Bruno Boettcher wrote: > > hello, > > i am in the process of porting a C++ program to java > > this program uses at some point unix-fifos > is there a way to open and write/read from unix fifos out of java? > i looked at the PipeReader etc. but this seem to be a java-intern mechanism...

Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher Smith
--On Friday, July 28, 2000 11:56 AM -0700 Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Generally speaking, you want a window manager that behaves as much as > possible like mwm. I've found that a lot of the older window managers are BTW, the reason for this is that the AWT makes a lot of assum

Re: error in java speech api

2000-07-28 Thread Joi Ellis
nilesh modi wrote: > > when i try to run a simple program of java speech api in jdk it gives error > that 'package javax.speech not found '. > do i need anything extra for running speech program , should i have speech > engine , isn't it inbuilt ? > if not, from where i can get? > from, > nilesh.

Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread Joi Ellis
Julio Cesar Aguilar Cabrera wrote: > > I'm using RedHat, XFree 3.3.6, and the latest IBM JDK 1.3 beta. > When I started writing visual programs in Java I noticed some > problems which I believe to be caused by AfterStep (1.8.1). > > I switched to KDE (1.1.2) and the problems dissapeared. > KDE i

Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher Smith
--On Friday, July 28, 2000 12:28 PM -0500 Julio Cesar Aguilar Cabrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using RedHat, XFree 3.3.6, and the latest IBM JDK 1.3 beta. > When I started writing visual programs in Java I noticed some > problems which I believe to be caused by AfterStep (1.8.1). > > I sw

Java and window managers

2000-07-28 Thread Julio Cesar Aguilar Cabrera
I'm using RedHat, XFree 3.3.6, and the latest IBM JDK 1.3 beta. When I started writing visual programs in Java I noticed some problems which I believe to be caused by AfterStep (1.8.1). I switched to KDE (1.1.2) and the problems dissapeared. KDE is good looking and all that but is slower and cons

mixing java pipes and unix-fifos?

2000-07-28 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i am in the process of porting a C++ program to java this program uses at some point unix-fifos is there a way to open and write/read from unix fifos out of java? i looked at the PipeReader etc. but this seem to be a java-intern mechanism -- ciao bboett =

error in java speech api

2000-07-28 Thread nilesh modi
when i try to run a simple program of java speech api in jdk it gives error that 'package javax.speech not found '. do i need anything extra for running speech program , should i have speech engine , isn't it inbuilt ? if not, from where i can get? from, nilesh. _

Cursor Position!!

2000-07-28 Thread legin
Hi all,     Can anybody tell me how to get the cursor index in a textfield..    I used the methods getCaretPosition() and also getSelectionStart() to manipulate the cursor position. But it doesn't work   If somebody has worked on this please help!   Thanks, legin.