[CF-Devel] Java Editor Questions/Notes

[Bob Tanner]

Quoting Mark Wedel (
     
     mwedel at scruz.net
     
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       First, I'm using JDK 1.4 beta, so I did need to recompile.  Once that was
     
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       done, I was able to run it just fine.
     
     
I have found lots of bugs in JDK 1.4 (from other Java projects I am working on),
so I have went back to jdk1.3-rc1. What is even better is IBMJava2-SDK-1.3-8.0,
it "fixes" the font problems in Linux.

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       I was also unable to select on anything in the map window once I loaded a
     
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       map.  The tracking information (mouse position and relative x,y values on the
     
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       map) at the bottom of the screen appeared correct, but clicking any of the
     
     
JDK 1.4's swing stuff just sucks. That is the only way I can put it. 1.3's swing
stuff is not much better. Again IBM's jdk is better, but still not perfect.

As an aside, I don't know how much bigger the editor will get, but I highly
recommend making it use ant for building purposes and if possible jikes, since
it's open source and easily compiles on non-intel, non-linux architectures.

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