[mds] friday update

[Wright E. <ew...@ba...>]

Howdy folks,

The example applets for chapter 1 are done.  I still need to check them
for mathematical errors, but they all look and work correctly.  While
writing them, however, I noticed that VisualMatrix and its derivatives do
not play nicely with GridLayout.  GridLayout tries to stretch the
components to equal sizes.  This seems to conflict with the way that they
resize themselves.  It causes an infinite loop of paint() calls if you
have two matrices with different preferred sizes in the Grid.  No matter,
I just stuck the matrices in their own FlowLayout Panels befor putting
them in grid cells.  This seemed to work.  Just something to be aware of.

I am going to pull a night session at my office today (saturday).  I
should be able to finish the drill applet so that chapter 1 will have all
of its applets complete.  I will also try to fix any mathematical errors
in the example applets.

Gabe, when would you like to start talking about hooks?

Oh.  I will try to get a web server up and running this weekend.  No
promises though.  I have a spectral solver to finish writing too.  I'm
becoming a *&%*%&^$ code monkey.

-Eric

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