Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 14:06:23 -0800 From: Steve Byrne <sbb@freegate.com> To: Johan Larsson <gozer@ludd.luth.se>, "'Jonathan Chen'" <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, "freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Swing 1.0 and jdk-1.1.5 Message-ID: <01BD45E4.62C54F40@ws2.hq.sbb.com>
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Look in the awt_Frame.c code -- there is a diff that the FreeBSD port has where an allowance for the height of the menu bar isn't being made. This may have been to fix the behavior with some window managers, but it looks like it's at the expense of others. My contacts in JavaSoft tell me two things (confirming what I'd heard before I left there): 1) the Motif based Frame code is broken with a lot of window managers (so you might see the same kinds of problems on the Solaris JDK), and 2) JDK 1.1.6 is due out relatively soon, and that fixes for the Frame code have been a high priority. Steve ---------- From: Jonathan Chen Sent: Monday, March 02, 1998 12:14 PM To: Johan Larsson Cc: Amancio Hasty; freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swing 1.0 and jdk-1.1.5 On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Johan Larsson wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > I have not noticed such behavior with my locally compiled jdk1.1.5/Motif > > on 3.0-current. > > > > Well, then i ran swing remote from my freebsd machine, i got this > behaviour _once_. It seemed that the size of the window wasn't enough so > then you pressed a menuitem it automaticly was over the first item in that > menu and of course then you released the button it thought that you have > pressed it. I don't know if this is a jdk-freebsd bug or a swingbug (I > haven't seen it then i tried it on a solaris machine). You've hit the problem on the head! However, here's the weird part. If I use fvwm95 as my Window Manager (it's my default), the menu-drop-list is positioned *ABOVE* the menubar-entry; thus causing the problem above. If I switch to twm, it positions itself below the menubar-entry (as I'd expect it to), and everything works ok. Whoa. I wouldn't have expected the Window Manager to have such an effect on the menu-list positioning! --- Jonathan Chen | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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