[CF-Devel] The Java Client

[Isak Styf]

lördagen den 16 februari 2002 kl 19.03 skrev Andreas Vogl:

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      Hi Isak Styf,
     
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      I am very happy about your effort to revive the Java Client.
     
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      The Windows client is currently kinda lacking support, so maybe
     
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      a Java Client might become handy for Win- (and of course Mac-) users.
     
     
That was why i started to work on it from the beginning. I believe that a
Java client has the potential to please an even larger audience than 
that.

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      I'm pretty sure Phil is going to like your work. Maybe you could join
     
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      up somehow and roll out a new "official" Java Client release...
     
     
I guess what would be best would be to put the sources in the CVS so
more people can work with it. I dont think i can do that all by my self 
though
since the code is not in the public domain (to the best of my knowledge)
and i dont know what Phil would think about that.

I sent my mail about the modifications over two months ago, and since
that day i havent done that very much coding on it. Most of my time is 
spent
doing commercial programming and finishing up my studies, so 
unfortunately
i havent been able to work as much on the client as i have wanted. I 
planned
to do a complete rewrite using interfaces and inheritances to cope with 
the
Swing/NOSWING audience seamlessly. I havent started that work yet though.

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      What I noticed from your screenshot is that you seem to have
     
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      problems with some pngs not being displayed correctly.
     
     
Yes. Quite a few pictures get a gray "cloud" on top of them.

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      I have coded a lot for the Crossfire Java Editor and this problem
     
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      is very familiar to me. I assume you did use the default Java methods
     
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      to load pngs? While using these, I had the same problems with the 
     
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      editor.
     
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      Applying an "external" png library fixed the problem for me. I use the
     
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      sixlegs png library <
      
      http://www.sixlegs.com/software/png/
      
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      It's the only png lib I found which is free, GPLed and working.
     
     
I will check that out. The png bug is annoying.

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      Java rules, ;o)
     
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      Andreas V.
     
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      PS.: Another small question: Where did you get a Java2 SDK for MacOS?
     
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            I know someone here who is searching for that...
     
     
For Classic MacOS there is no Java2 SDK because there is no Java2
support for Classic MacOS. I have done my development work with
Project Builder under MacOS X which has 1.3.1 under the hood.

Bye for now.

     /// Isak Styf