Re: [JGB-general] Unable to run tutorial simple window

[Stelar <ste...@in...>]

On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:04 am, Francois Beausoleil wrote:
> Hi !
>
> This is normal.  When did you ask the window to be shown ?  :)  You need
> one of the following:
> *  set the visible property to true
> *  retrieve the window reference from Builder and call setVisible(true)
>
> Builder will not show anything by itself.  It's responsibility is to
> build windows, nothing else.  This makes it possible to use Builder to
> build a multitude of windows, and have none of them show up on screen.
> Then, later, the windows can be shown as appropriate, by the event
> dispatchers.
>
> Hope that helps !
> Fran=E7ois

Ahh... I understand... I'm actually newbie to java, so I'm not that familia=
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with it.  But the tutorial in the website is a little misleading, because f=
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the "Simple Window Tutorial", in the "Warrior's Luck" section, there's no=20
setVisible methodCall, but the paragraph says that "You have a window that=
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pops up on your screen".  You might want to update that :)