Re: java developer feedback

2000-11-11 Thread Ron Yorston
Joi Ellis wrote: >On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Calvin Austin wrote: > >> In moving forward I would be very interested in areas that >> you believe Blackdown and Sun should focus on, in particular >> what do you plan to use the linux port for, whether its as >> a development machine or rolling out into pro

Re: Java running slow in Gnome

2000-10-26 Thread Ron Yorston
Glenn Valenta wrote: >"Andrew R. Post" wrote: >> >> My experience is that Jdk1.2.2 for Linux reacts very badly with Sawmill: >> default window positioning is partially off the upper left corner of the >> screen, Swing GUI elements are cut-off at the edges of windows, and >> general slowness. Runn

Re: Java and window managers

2000-07-31 Thread Ron Yorston
Calvin Austin wrote: >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) I don't need to log a bug. The issue I'm most concerned about is already in the Bug Database: 4102292 New AWT Frame

Re: Frame's title bar is off the screen

2000-03-27 Thread Ron Yorston
>When I open a frame with the code given below, it opens with <0,0> of the >content area at <0,0> of the screen. So, the title bar is off the screen, >and the window can't be moved. Is there a "WORA" workaround? I found this >message, but I'd rather avoid this type of stuff if possible: This is m

Re: JAVA+Enlightenment

1999-10-21 Thread Ron Yorston
Renzo Pecoraro wrote: > >Does anybody have a hint as to how to fix this: I am using >RH6.0+Gnome+E, and whenever I startup NetBeans places itself in the top >left corner, but hides its own window titlebar, so that I don't have >access to the iconify buttons, etc. Very annoying! Is there a fix? Ah

Re: Java and Enlightenment

1999-09-30 Thread Ron Yorston
Michael Emmel wrote: >Peter Graves wrote: > >> The authors of the Enlightenment window manager have some >> interesting comments today about Java: >> >> http://www.enlightenment.org/news.html >> >> Their basic point is that "Java under X (AWT) is Broken"; they >> don't mention which Java impl

RE: position of java applications starting up.

1999-05-14 Thread Ron Yorston
Nelson Minar wrote: >But I have a related >question - how do I *not* set the position of a window? I don't call >any methods to set the position, yet my window manager thinks the >window is demanding to be placed at 0,0. I'd rather let the window >manager decide itself. > >Am I doing something wr

Catching operating system signals

1999-03-09 Thread Ron Yorston
Peter Kovacs wrote: >Is there any facility (Java API call) which can be used to catch operating >system signals sent to the Java Virtual Machine and do whatever deemed >necessary upon reception of a specific signal? There isn't anything as standard. Perhaps this will help, though: http://in

Re: [Fwd: [java3d] Java Media source licensing to Linux]

1999-03-04 Thread Ron Yorston
>From the Sun announcement: >This agreement enables the Linux community to develop and distribute >media-enhanced applications for the Java 2 platform for non-commercial use. Why the limitation to non-commercial use? Maybe I don't understand the terms, but the licence on the Sun site for other

JDK 1.2 for AIX

1999-01-18 Thread Ron Yorston
Interesting. I've just received a copy of IBM's Java Update e-mail which says they're shipping a preview of JDK 1.2 for AIX, even though it doesn't pass all of the JCK. I wonder what their lawyers know that the Blackdown team doesn't. Ron --- DOWNLOAD! IBM JAVA(TM) 2 PORT FOR AIX - TECHNOLOGY

mergemem kernel patch

1998-11-13 Thread Ron Yorston
ry usage figures for JDK 1.1.3 running some of the demo applets: First instance of JVM12488 kB Further instance w/o mergemem 7612 kB Further intstance with mergemem 2452 kB This looks like a very promising approach for those who need to run multiple inst

Re: java 1.2 ??

1998-06-09 Thread Ron Yorston
cedric baudoin wrote: >is there any known date for java 1.2 ? Don't know about Linux, but the latest information on the Java Developer Connection is that JDK 1.2 beta 4 is due out 29 June and the final release will be 21 September. That'll be for Windows and Solaris. http://developer.java.sun

Re: appletviewer screen location

1998-06-07 Thread Ron Yorston
The positioning of windows under X is somewhat broken. There is a bug report on this at the Java Developer Connection, but Sun have classified it as a 'request for enhancement'. http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4102292.html Ron