Java problem; is this Linux-related?

[Matthew Carpenter]

early AWT implementations were very different.  Some still are.  Unfortunately, AWT leaves a lot up to the JRE implementation.
SWING (JFC) classes do the rendering in Java, which makes them a lot more consistent.  Unix, Mac and Windows all have their quirks for AWT layout, still (as far as I know).

HTH.

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003 16:08:44 -0700 (PDT)
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kevin at kosmanor.com> wrote:

> I've recently received the Java source code for an application I've
> been using for a while, and want to fix some of the glitches that
> have been bugging me.  I've gotten most of them, but two are being
> obstinate.
> 
> The original author was on a Mac, and did not have the problems
> I'm having.  I wonder how to fix these, and wonder if I'm facing
> something inherent in recent versions of Java for Linux.  I say
> recent, because the problems are not present in earlier JDKs or
> SDKs.  Some things I've fixed because the original code wasn't
> quite doing the portable thing.  Some I fixed by putting in
> preferences.  These two remain unsolved.
> 
> My Java is 1.4.1_02-b06, it says.
> 
> Anyway, the problems:
> 
> 1) The File Open dialogs now show files in the native order,
>    unsorted.  This makes it quite hard to find files in some of
>    my directories with hundreds of files.
> 
> 2) I'm having trouble making the GridBag thingy work.  I've
>    got one sub-window that's way narrow, and can only get it
>    to widen a small amount, despite giving *500 weight to its
>    constraint.  The overall layout is like this:
> 
>    ------------------------------------------------------------
>    |                      1                            |  4   |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |---------------------------------------------------|      |
>    |                      2                            |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |---------------------------------------------------|      |
>    |                      3                            |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |                                                   |      |
>    |----------------------------------------------------------|
>    |                      5                                   |
>    |                                                          |
>    |                                                          |
>    |----------------------------------------------------------|
> 
> 
> My problems are the width of panel 4 and the height of panel 5.
> Panels 1 and 2 are single rows of buttons.  Panel 3 has some
> scalable graphics but don't seem to be the problem, because
> they have a fixed aspect ratio and I can keep them narrow or short.
> Panels 4 and 5 are text.  Panel 3 seems to suck up all the
> available space in spite of the contents remaining in that fixed
> aspect ratio.
> 
> Anybody know where to get help with this, or even better, have
> a clue what the answer will be?
> 
> ++ kevin
> 
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