Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 12:21:46 +1030 (CST) From: Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au> To: Joachim Jaeckel <Joachim.Jaeckel@coffeebreak.de> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: questions for jdk 12-beta Message-ID: <200011080151.MAA15015@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3A08A3BE.3059C209@coffeebreak.de> from Joachim Jaeckel at "Nov 8, 2000 01:52:14 am"
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Joachim Jaeckel wrote: > Hello, > > first of all: Great work, what you did (and do) on jdk 1.2.2! > > Do you have a BUG database for the jdk port? No, but there probably should be :). > I'm using the 12beta-port from 2 weeks ago and I recognized the > following (but it seems to be a Motif-problem maybe, because I saw this > behaviour recently with netscape on my machine...) > My self written (swing-)application is sometimes responding to > mouse-clicks on scrollbars, even if I already released the mouse button. > It stops only, if I move the mouse-pointer away from the scrollbar. Do > you know a way to work around? Or am I the only one who run into it? This is most likely to be a Motif problem. > Another question is, there's a lot of freespace around text in swing > application on jbuttons and jtree's for example. More, than on the linux > and windows versions, and more the on the 1.1.8 jdk for FreeBSD. Does it > come from the use of the URW-fonts? > (It just interests me...) I've seen this too and think its also a Motif problem, or rather a Motif mismatch. Internally, Sun have used Motif 1.2 for the JDK. We're using OpenMotif which is Motif 2.1.30. There are some incompatibilities we're stuck with for the moment. - Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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