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

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

Whoops! I meant to say "GL4Java 2.8.2" (not Magician). (I bascially just stepped into
Burger King and ordered Chicken McNuggets. whoops.)

-Mark M

Mark Montana wrote:

> Comments inserted below....
>
> "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?