From owner-freebsd-java Thu May 31 16:34:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from itouch.co.nz (itouch.co.nz [203.99.66.188]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F85837B424 for ; Thu, 31 May 2001 16:34:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@itouch.co.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by itouch.co.nz (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f4VNY2I02516 for freebsd-java@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:34:02 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:34:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Swing 1.1 differences between jdk-1.1 and jdk-1.2 Message-ID: <20010601113402.A98694@itouchnz.itouch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org So, I finally managed to get jdk12-beta installed on my system (don't you just love the ports system!); and I ran a couple of Swing programs, including the SwingSet demo, to compare the differences. The most obvious difference is the font display (spacing, especially), which is quite significant. This is most obvious with the SwingSet demo, on the "Plain Text" panel. Does anyone on the list have any config-tweaks they can suggest so that Swing looks better under FreeBSD jdk-1.2? Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Opportunities are seldom labeled To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message