Re: [gl4java-usergroup] Solaris, what a pain in the...

[Mark M. <pat...@lm...>]

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"Kenneth B. Russell" wrote:

> > Little survey for all the GL4Java and/or Java3D developers...Do you develop
> > or deploy your apps on Solaris?
>
> The GL4Java apps I've developed (largely on Windows) worked fine
> on Solaris. A couple of minor code changes related to shutdown
> issues, but those were due to differences between Sun's Windows
> and X11 AWT implementations. (You can't call System.exit() from
> the AWT thread on X11...)
>

That sucks. How did you initiate a shut-down without a GUI button, menu, or
window event? I don't think we saw problems with this specifically, but I'm not
sure.

>
> Suggestions: upgrade to 2.8 if you aren't already running it.

Already did. We're using Magician 2.8.2, and SDK 1.3.1, and Java3D 1.3. (We're
avoiding SDK 1.4 for the moment because it has a serious bug when rendering
images in Swing. For example, button images blink in-and-out, they show up of the
wrong button sometimes, and show up in other strange places.) We're running on
Sparc Ultra 10 with Elite 3D graphics card under Solaris 8.

>
> Install the latest OpenGL for Solaris/SPARC from Sun's web site.

We already did. The system admins here loaded an OS patch that updated/fixed the
latest OpenGL install on the Sun.

>
> Make sure you have all of the recommended patches, especially X
> server patches.

Interesting. I'll pass this on to the sys admins. Any specific patch numbers you
can say?