On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:51:56AM -0500, Joi Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Nathan Meyers wrote:
>
> > The AWT seemed like a good idea at the time, but it has aged poorly.
> > Even the most careful programmers have a hard time designing an app or
> > applet that looks decent in all environme
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> The AWT seemed like a good idea at the time, but it has aged poorly.
> Even the most careful programmers have a hard time designing an app or
> applet that looks decent in all environments. And the two toolkits
> in this case - the Windows GUI and Motif
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:15:55AM -0400, Bruce Miller wrote:
> Joi Ellis wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> >
> > > They are going to say why isn't the Linux jre compatible with the
> > > windows version?
> >
> > No JRE in the world can compensate for lazy programm
Joi Ellis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Bruce Miller wrote:
>
> > Although I dont have a better solution at hand, IMHO a lot of
> > AWT (& Swing inherits enough of this) represents an opportunity
> > missed.
> >
> > Many of us started out with Java years ago writting Applets ---
> > and discove
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Bruce Miller wrote:
> Although I dont have a better solution at hand, IMHO a lot of
> AWT (& Swing inherits enough of this) represents an opportunity
> missed.
>
> Many of us started out with Java years ago writting Applets ---
> and discovered there was no access to enough
Joi Ellis wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
>
> > They are going to say why isn't the Linux jre compatible with the
> > windows version?
>
> No JRE in the world can compensate for lazy programmers.
Agreed! And yet
Although I dont have a better solution at hand, IM
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> To fix my specific problem, what if I:
>
> 1) Run xfs with tt-support and copy all my Windows fonts to LInux
> 2) Edit font.properties to use the win fonts
>
> This should fix all my problems, or not?
Nope. The Unix/Linux JVMs do not use xfs fo
To fix my specific problem, what if I:
1) Run xfs with tt-support and copy all my Windows fonts to LInux
2) Edit font.properties to use the win fonts
This should fix all my problems, or not?
-Ole Jacob
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 13:42, Joi Ellis wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset w
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> OK, I don't know a thing about jre's internals, but I can't imagine that it
> can be very hard to make the win and linux versions compatible. Now that all
> win fonts are available on Linux. Can somebody please explain this to me. If
> it is pos
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> They are going to say why isn't the Linux jre compatible with the
> windows version?
No JRE in the world can compensate for lazy programmers.
--
Joi EllisSoftware Engineer
Aravox Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMA
OK, I don't know a thing about jre's internals, but I can't imagine that it
can be very hard to make the win and linux versions compatible. Now that all
win fonts are available on Linux. Can somebody please explain this to me. If
it is possible to make a fix for this, then why not? Most browser
It is possible that this is a problem in the applet code, but that doesn't
help me. I've had this problem with both my on-line banks (completely
different systems) and the tax thing below. Isn't there a way to get around
this? When the applets works fine in windows companies will not use
thous
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Ole Jacob Taraldset wrote:
> I've had this problem since I started using Linux a few years ago,
> and have been unable to find a fix. This must be a problem for many
> people: When I access a Java applett on web which requires text
> input the fonts in the input-box is to sma
I've had this problem since I started using Linux a few years ago, and have
been unable to find a fix. This must be a problem for many people:
When I access a Java applett on web which requires text input the fonts in
the input-box is to small (or large?) to bee shown. I've tried to hack the
fo
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