map display

1999-09-09 Thread R MUTHUSWAMY
hi i am doing a project using maps in java. so is there any support for maps displays in java. And where i can get some materials about maps usage in java. Thanx in advance. muthu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: map display

1999-09-09 Thread Thierry Philipovitch
Hi, take a look at http://www.ggrweb.com/geojava/index.html perhaps you could find there some materials. Thierry Le jeu, 09 sep 1999, R MUTHUSWAMY a écrit : > hi > i am doing a project using maps in java. so is there any support > for maps displays in java. And where i can get some materi

Testing whether executable or not

1999-09-09 Thread ALPESH KOTHARI
Hello, I want to test that a given file is executable or not using java. Can I do it? Running the executable is possible, but is there any explicit testing command? THanking You all, ALpesh === KOTHARI ALPESH D. STUDENT M. TECH. CEDT INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE BANGALORE-560 012 INDIA

Re: map display

1999-09-09 Thread Diego Pons
R MUTHUSWAMY wrote: > > hi > i am doing a project using maps in java. so is there any support > for maps displays in java. And where i can get some materials about maps > usage in java. > Without endorsing them, in http:www.esri.com you'll find some map server products via applets. Unfo

Re: Jini on Linux

1999-09-09 Thread Cees de Groot
In article <01befa8d$35da1510$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Has anybody tried Jini on Linux...Any help about this will be useful.. > I'm using it and it works. What's more to say? If you are having problems, check three things: 1. Multicast support in the kernel (>=2.0.37); 2. The correct m

about using JFC

1999-09-09 Thread sn_java
Hello java-linux, where can I download swing tutorial? thanks Best regards, sn_java mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: map display

1999-09-09 Thread Diego Pons
Diego Pons wrote: > > R MUTHUSWAMY wrote: > > > > hi > > i am doing a project using maps in java. so is there any support > > for maps displays in java. And where i can get some materials about maps > > usage in java. > > > > Without endorsing them, in http:www.esri.com you'll find some

Re: about using JFC

1999-09-09 Thread Martin Schröder
On 1997-09-09 19:48:44 +0800, sn_java wrote: ^ Your date is wrong > where can I download swing tutorial? http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/information/download.html Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ArtCom GmbH, Grazer Straß

Re: about using JFC

1999-09-09 Thread Thomas M. Sasala
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ sn_java wrote: > > Hello java-linux, > > where can I download swing tutorial? > thanks > > Best regards, > sn_java mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To

Re: about using JFC

1999-09-09 Thread Jim Caley
You can download Sun's Java Tutorial at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/information/download.html and then work through the "Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing" trail. Regards, Jim -- sn_java wrote: > > Hello java-linux, > > where can I download swing tutorial? > thanks > > Best regard

Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Kontorotsui
After extensive experience with Java GUI, mostly by using Swing, I wonder why there are hard tasks which can be accomplished very easily and easy ones which look almost impossible. Here are two examples. I have a grid with 3 buttons in the first row and 2 buttons in the third, I wanted to place

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Justin Lawler
You can accomplish that using the GridBag layout manager, but that is quite hard to use. A much easier layout manager to use is the GraphPaper layout manager, which comes with the java tutorial. I agree with you about the setting color for all the components of the panel. There should be some def

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Michael Christiansen
I think the solution to your layout is to use GridBagLayout. If I understand your description, you will need a 10 column / 3 row layout. The first two rows occupy columns 1&2, 5&6, 9&10. Row 3 buttons occupy columns 2-4, 7-9. However, the multi-panel layout is not at all unreasonable. All this ass

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Dick Balaska
Kontorotsui wrote: > > After extensive experience with Java GUI, mostly by using Swing, I wonder why > there are hard tasks which can be accomplished very easily and easy ones which > look almost impossible. > > Here are two examples. > > I have a grid with 3 buttons in the first row and 2 butt

Gosling says he wants to support Java on Linux

1999-09-09 Thread Nelson Minar
An interview with Gosling is at http://webserv.vnunet.com/www_user/plsql/pkg_vnu_search_mo.right_frame?p_story=89624 Suprising quote: Zombiehead: James, what's your stance on Java in relation to open source? It's one of the reasons Linux is successful. Do you see this as a future possibi

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Nathan Meyers
Kontorotsui wrote: > > After extensive experience with Java GUI, mostly by using Swing, I wonder why > there are hard tasks which can be accomplished very easily and easy ones which > look almost impossible. > > Here are two examples. > > I have a grid with 3 buttons in the first row and 2 butt

SLC 2000 - First call for papers

1999-09-09 Thread Amlan Saha
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Singapore Linux Conference (SLC) 2000 March 8-10 2000 This annual conference and expo, started in 1999, aims to draw world-renowned experts in the exciting field of Linux and showcase the state of the art in Ecommerce and Linux in t

Re: Gosling says he wants to support Java on Linux

1999-09-09 Thread jools enticknap
This is not a flame, just a comment :-) Or perhaps it's just down to the fact that the JVM was originally coded on Solaris. Although Solaris and Linux are fairly common on a number of fronts, they differ on a great many too. Perhaps the best way to solve the problem ( although it's more

Re: map display

1999-09-09 Thread Peter Mount
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, R MUTHUSWAMY wrote: > > hi > i am doing a project using maps in java. so is there any support > for maps displays in java. And where i can get some materials about maps > usage in java. I have some unpublished classes that handle layered vector based maps. It's Astrono

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Ted Neward
"Box" component? Ted Neward Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken here http://www.javageeks.com/~tneward "I don't even speak for myself; my wife won't let me." --Me -Original Message- From: Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kontorotsui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Java-Linux List <

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Nathan Meyers
Ted Neward wrote: > > "Box" component? javax.swing.Box - a lightweight container whose purpose in life is to support easy use of the BoxLayout manager. It's one of the simplest solutions I've found to many layout problems. Nathan > > Ted Neward > Patterns/C++/Java/CORBA/EJB/COM-DCOM spoken h

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Alex M.
> I think a better solution is to override getForeground / getBackground > of the component to return something related to it's parents? So now you have to override all the gui components just to override one method? I would think that would be a lot of work for very little gain, not to mention

Answers (RE: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java)

1999-09-09 Thread Kontorotsui
Hello again, first of all thanks for your answer, this is not strictly java-linux related so I do a general reply to everybody. About the 3 rows of buttons, 2 rows with 3 buttons, the last row with 2 buttons, I probably failed to explain exactly what was the problem. I am well aware (e

appletviewer missing fonts

1999-09-09 Thread Eric vanberkel
Hi y'all, Whenever I start appletviewer I get these missing font messages. Did I miss something when installing? I use the blackdown JDK 1.2b pre-release kit on TurboLinux 3.0. Someone seen this stuff? gr. Eric Font specified in font.properties not found [--zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--*-%d-

Re: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java

1999-09-09 Thread Alex M.
> When writing gui apps, most of the time i have to override most of the > components anyway, except for generic items such as buttons. But this is > the only way i see to implement color themes, because it works when you > add/remove components dynamically. The recursive setColor won't work in >

Niiiccee...

1999-09-09 Thread Riyad Kalla
This is to lighten the spirits a little bit, login to a Unix/Linux machine and type this: echo njdsptpgu tvdlt | tr [b-z] [a-y] Best wishes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Niiiccee...

1999-09-09 Thread Jacob Nikom
I am sure it is something great, but I the response I got was: tr: no match Jacob Riyad Kalla wrote: > > This is to lighten the spirits a little bit, login to a > Unix/Linux machine and type this: > > echo njdsptpgu tvdlt | tr [b-z] [a-y] > > Best wishes > > -

Re: Niiiccee...

1999-09-09 Thread Eric Vicario
...uhhh, it's not something great. In fact, something most of us don't like... ;) - Original Message - From: Jacob Nikom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Riyad Kalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Marc Chung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Joe Sinkwitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Rick Mercer <[

Re: Answers (RE: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java)

1999-09-09 Thread alx
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Kontorotsui wrote: > BG color from the container. Ok... then tell me why by default the background > color is not set to null but to a SystemColor constant! I don't find any logic > in this, the default should be the most generic choice (null), not the most > specific (a fixed

Re: Answers (RE: Sometimes easy things are hard/impossible in Java)

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Kontorotsui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > About the 3 rows of buttons, 2 rows with 3 buttons, the last row with 2 > buttons, I probably failed to explain exactly what was the problem. > > I am well aware (even too much :) ) of the GridBagLayout, which I used > everywhere. But, if I'm not mi

Re: Gosling says he wants to support Java on Linux

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: "jools enticknap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Or perhaps it's just down to the fact that the JVM was originally coded > on Solaris. Although Solaris and Linux are fairly common on a number of > fronts, they differ on a great many too. Didn't Sun rewrite or reorganize something recent

Re: Niiiccee...

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Jacob Nikom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > I am sure it is something great, but I the response I got was: > tr: no match > > Riyad Kalla wrote: ... > > echo njdsptpgu tvdlt | tr [b-z] [a-y] It should have quotes around the [b-z] and [a-y] parts. Daniel ---

Re: Niiiccee...

1999-09-09 Thread Jeff Galyan
Worked fine for me - I suspect Jacob doesn't have tr in his path. --Jeff Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > From: Jacob Nikom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ... > > I am sure it is something great, but I the response I got was: > > tr: no match > > > > Riyad Kalla wrote: > ... > > > echo njdsptpgu tvdlt