Visual Cafe GUI progs without Symantec classes

[Alex]

Hi,

I would like to develop Java GUI applications with Visual Cafe 3.0
Prof., but I just want to use standard Java or Swing classes, no
Symantec-specific stuff. Is there an easy way to acomplish this?
One thing bothering me particulary are the
com.symantec.itools.awt.GridBagConstraintsD objects. Where are they
documented, is there an easy and PDE-compliant way to replace them with
regular classes like java.awt.GridBagConstraints?

Thank you for your help,
Alex

[Jack Holden]

Alex wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to develop Java GUI applications with Visual Cafe 3.0
> Prof.,

You should post VC questions to the appropriate groups at Symantec's server at
news://service.symantec.com/. Look for the symantec.support.itools.win.vcafe3.*
groups there. (not the one you used, that's for the old versions).

> but I just want to use standard Java or Swing classes, no
> Symantec-specific stuff. Is there an easy way to acomplish this?

Typically you won't use any Symantec stuff...but the Symantec guys can answer
this better.

> One thing bothering me particulary are the
> com.symantec.itools.awt.GridBagConstraintsD objects. Where are they
> documented, is there an easy and PDE-compliant way to replace them with
> regular classes like java.awt.GridBagConstraints?

this annoyed me when I first found it too. But, if you look at it, it's simply
a tiny little wrapper class to handle the GridBagConstraints more easily. I
believe it's only 1K or less of bytecode. My solution - I just included it in
my JAR files.

- Jack
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