RE: [Java-gnome-developer] Some other minor issues

[Luca De R. <pie...@li...>]

Il mer, 2003-11-12 alle 19:24, Luca De Rugeriis ha scritto:
> Il mer, 2003-11-12 alle 15:10, Jeffrey Morgan ha scritto:
> > >      1. If you use the AppBar, all is fine except that, if you also
> > >         install menu hints, instead of the right hint you will end up
> > >         with a lot of libgnomeui information strings sticked in the
> > >         appbar, but only when the mouse hovers the main menu 
> > > items i.e.
> > >         file, edit,...etc. (If you want I can explain myself 
> > > better with
> > >         a couple of pics).
> > 
> > This seems to be working now.  I believe this was addressed with
> > the reworking of String arrays.  Please try again and let me know
> > if you are still having problems.
Nope. Unfortunately this is still present, I've attached my simple app
(written while learning) to let you figure out precisely what happens:
simply hover the main menu item (like edit, help) with the mouse, you'll
see messed strings pushed in the appbar.
This isn't a major bug cause the only real advantage I've seen using
AppBar instead of StatusBar is that i can app.flash(String s) a message
in the bar without have to write a thread. (and also use the
progressbar).
But at this stage, if you have an app menu and menu hints installed, the
AppBar is quite unusable :(

> > 
> > >      2. It seems there is a couple of visible bug in the TestGtk
> > >         application: when you click on the toolbar button and on the
> > >         handle box button the program crash with signal 11 with a long
> > >         trace. I think these traces are easily reproducible, but again
> > >         if you want I will post them.
> > 
> > The fix for this problem is in cvs.
The handlebox is fixed, but the toolbar still has quirks:
the first time I've launched it, it showed up but it had generic gtk
icons(the ones with the white sheet with a red cross), and on stderr it
complaints about something like an appendWidget method failed, but I
can't tell more precisely cause right now the toolbar doesn't show out
anymore! (strange)

> > 
> > >      3. In the TreeExample app, it cannot render a pixbuf on the tree.
> > >         It complaints with this message:
> > 
> > This item will requrie further work.  I will look into it over
> > the next few days.
Ok :)

> > 
> > > And finally, altought maybe it isn't a bug report, can we 
> > > have chance to
> > > see the MessageDialog class finished?
> > 
> > This class is already complete.  I just added an example of
> > its' usage to TestGTK.  Check out cvs.
Silly me! I really was so dumb I thought it was incomplete.
Actually it's nice and functional :)

About the example apps: not that I care particularly about them, I
assumed that there were bugs in the java-gnome library rather than in
the example apps themselves, so if these bugs above are present only
because they are example apps'  bugs, you can safely leave them there :)

If there is the need of test app, I think we should work on cloning
gtk-demo. Are the incomplete test case classes intended as a start for
java-gnome-demo? I wish to help (as a said) but, since I can't compile
the test case, I'm just wondering if the java-gnome-demo work is going
to start from the test case apps.
It seems to me that the the idea was to write java-gnome-demo starting
from the examples apps instead (TestGtk and others), is this true?
Because if it is, there is still a lot of stuff to be done, for example:
the button boxes example should use stock icons. Does it make sense if I
do a patch for this?
Also in the gtk-demo there is a source viewer with syntax highlighting,
do we have to implement that? It sounds interesting :)
Comments to my little app (my first one :) are also appreciated.

Regards,
Luca.

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Luca De Rugeriis <pie...@li...>