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Archive for June, 2003

Haystack - small installation glitch and then The Big Wait(TM)

Ok I had to download the famous Haystack everyone is talking about…
First launch failed because apparently the monster is compiling some Java code during its execution. However it doesn't call the jdk but the jre - so the quickest solution was to copy tools.jar in haystack/lib/java. Then I've waited … and waited … and waited [...]

SWT has an older brother … wx4j

wx4j is a Java wrapper around the *tried and tested* wxWindows widget framework. The main idea may be similar with one which gave birth to SWT : hide native widgets behing a [more or less] thin layer of Java. By “native” I mean widgets for Windows flavours, Linux/Unix with GTK+ or Motif, and MacOS as [...]