J2SE 1.4.2 Beta has been released

Shannon Hickey - Swing Team

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Apr 4, 2003, 11:27:41 AM4/4/03

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Hi everyone,

J2SE 1.4.2 Beta has just been released. Please try it out and let us
know what you think. The sooner we get bug reports, the sooner we can
address them.

In particular, you may be interested in:
- Changes to the Windows look and feel so that it looks like XP when
run on XP.
- A new GTK look and feel - skinnable!

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/index.html

Shannon
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Alexandr Molochnikov

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Apr 4, 2003, 10:49:03 PM4/4/03

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Very early results: the memory management in Swing has improved
considerably. JFrames are now finalized and GCed - in 1.4.1 they were held
hostage by menus.

Alex Molochnikov
Gestalt Corporation

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lm9user

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May 24, 2003, 6:32:05 PM5/24/03

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Shannon Hickey - Swing Team wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> J2SE 1.4.2 Beta has just been released. Please try it out and let us
> know what you think. The sooner we get bug reports, the sooner we can
> address them.
>
> In particular, you may be interested in:
> - Changes to the Windows look and feel so that it looks like XP when
> run on XP.
> - A new GTK look and feel - skinnable!
>
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/index.html
>
> Shannon

I tried to get it running with GTK2 look and feel.

I am running it on Mandrake 9.1 ( GTK 2.2), when I specify
-Dswing.defaultlaf=\"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel,
I get an error that it couldn't load the settings

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: can't load
"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel"
at javax.swing.UIManager.initializeDefaultLAF(UIManager.java:1091)
at javax.swing.UIManager.initialize(UIManager.java:1181)
at javax.swing.UIManager.maybeInitialize(UIManager.java:1164)
at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(UIManager.java:775)
at javax.swing.JPanel.updateUI(JPanel.java:105)
at javax.swing.JPanel.<init>(JPanel.java:64)
at javax.swing.JPanel.<init>(JPanel.java:88)
at javax.swing.JPanel.<init>(JPanel.java:96)
at javax.swing.JRootPane.createGlassPane(JRootPane.java:477)
at javax.swing.JRootPane.<init>(JRootPane.java:308)
at javax.swing.JWindow.createRootPane(JWindow.java:233)
at javax.swing.JWindow.windowInit(JWindow.java:224)
at javax.swing.JWindow.<init>(JWindow.java:161)
at javax.swing.JWindow.<init>(JWindow.java:112)
at org.argouml.ui.SplashScreen.<init>(SplashScreen.java:43)
at org.argouml.application.Main.main(Main.java:214)

I even created a link from .gtkrc to .gtkrc-2.0

Ana

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May 27, 2003, 2:38:07 PM5/27/03

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On Sat, 24 May 2003 18:32:05 -0400, lm9user wrote:

> -Dswing.defaultlaf=\"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel,

Dont use \" (and the , at the end of the line)

I got it to work with RH 9.0

lm9user

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May 27, 2003, 3:27:37 PM5/27/03

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Ana wrote:

It doesn't work even when I enter the entire command on one line, without
the quotes ( or \ to escape quotes) so thats not the issue.

It appears that it can only parse the gtkrc on redhat which is somehow
redhat specific. Maybe the theme files.