Re: [javaCompiler-users] NetBeans and JSwing Layout Support and JMF Support

[Joe O. <joe...@ya...>]

Dear Marco

Your last reply was probably less than an hour. I
greatly appreciate that. You've almost got me
converting to SWT but I would still like to exhaust
the alternatives if at all possible.

> swingWT mapps AWT/Swing to SWT. But not everything
> is mapped...
> http://javacompiler.mtsystems.ch/frame_faq.html,
> second question
> 
> > So this is where I need help. 
> > 
> > This is what I am guessing I have to do: 
> > 1-Get these classes as java source codes. 
> > 2-Get the swingWT as source. 
> > 3-Put the classes somewhere in the swingWT
> directory
> > hierarchy. (src folder)
> > 4-Add something to the swingWT main class so they
> are
> > seen. 
> > 5-Compile them to a jar. 
> > 6-Compile the jar to an object file. 
> > 7-Replace the original swingWT object and jar
> files
> > with the ones I modified. 
> > 
> > Is this what I have to do?
> 
> No. You have to get the swingWT source and add all
> classes/methods you 
> still need. Internally you will work with SWT, but
> you simulate the 
> AWT/Swing API to outside.
> Change directly to SWT... It's easier...

I am confused. 
You say 'No' but then you seem to imply 'yes' in the
sentence that follows.
Doesn't my (1,2,3)==Your"You have to get the swingWT
source and add all classes/methods you still need"
Which ones are right/wrong 1,2,3,4,5,6,7?

I think the part I need clarification on is the word
"add".
Add the ones that have the "cannot find symbol"?
Add them how exactly. If not like I wrote above then
how?
Add them where? To the swingwt-all.jar
Can you give me more details?

I am not a professional programmer.
I just learned JSwing and NetBeans and have been
programming Java for only 6 months.
Before that I did C and Fortran nearly 20 years ago.
It's taken me 6 months to write only 3500 lines of
code and a lot of that is either IDE auto generated or
templates from Java Almanac. So you can see I am a
beginner.

Let me rephrase my understanding of what you are
saying.

Say the compilation tells me there are "cannot find
symbol" errors for 6 classes that I am using.
I go and get those 6 class files - say from Sun's JDK
or wherever thay are.
I put them in the swingwt-all.jar file which is in the
swingWT-0.87 directory.
Is that right? Where do I put them exactly.
Can you be more specific considering I am relatively
new at this.

I had a look at the SwingWT site and I read this:
"Unlike Swing, SwingWT drives native peer widgets for
your platform from SWT" - Ich verstehe dieses ganz
weniger als ich Chinesen verstehe. 

You have said it's easier to convert my program to
SWT. At the rate I go that may take months. Ich bin so
langsam wie eine Schildkröte, die in Schnapps
schwimmt. Debugging is a killer. If all I have to do
is get some class files, put them in the right place
and that's it then that seems a lot faster in concept.


Ah please don't write instructions back to me in
German. I haven't used that language in 20 years
either. Your English is so good, even when I saw your
spelling of "sure" I didn't realize your first
language was not English. I thought it was new slang.
I teach English to Koreans here. They find it so
difficult to learn. That's what my program is for,
learning English for Koreans.

Six months ago I was looking for an IDE to use. I
bypassed JBuilder and Eclipse in favor of NetBeans
because I thought it was much easier and faster to get
used to. I thought even Oracle's Java IDE was better
than JBuilder and Eclipse. I guess now I 

still should have chosen Eclipse and SWT. At the time
I wasn't aware there were different GUI libraries like
SWT and Swing.

Have you heard of Excelsior Jet? Jet and your program
are the only two in the whole world that compile java
to exe for Windows. These are the prices for Jet:

Enterprise $4,500  
Professional $2,300  
Standard $1,200 

Pretty expensive isn't it?

Joe



	

	
		
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