Re: [xmlvm-users] Java iPhone emulator display weirdness

[John C. <jc...@un...>]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Arno Puder <ar...@pu...> wrote:
>
> The problem you are experiencing has to do with the fact that the Java
> emulator does not handle labels with line breaks.
>
> When we began with the Java API for iOS, we also implemented the
> behavior of the various widgets, which ended up being the Java emulator.
> Note that this is a humongous task because you have to implement the
> behavior of every iOS widget in Java. At some point we (the core team)
> decided not to extend the Java emulator any further but focus our energy
> on cross-compilation. If someone contributed patches to enhance this, we
> would certainly be more than happy to add them to XMLVM.
>

OK, understood. Thanks, Arno! I will do what I can to help the
project. I'm still intending to send you a patch for the HTML docs,
but I still haven't figured out how to reliably convert an Android
project to iPhone yet.

>
> On 4/11/11 11:42 PM, John Comeau wrote:
>> The Java iPhone emulator that comes with xmlvm starts showing text in
>> the middle (vertically) rather than top, and doesn't render linefeeds.
>> See the difference between http://jc.unternet.net/blog/androidfail.png
>> (with ant run-Android) and http://jc.unternet.net/blog/javafail.png
>> (with ant run-Java); any ideas as to how to solve this? I tried
>> changing my strings to "some string\r\n" but it didn't help the Java
>> output, and it put a rectangular box at the end of the strings in the
>> Android display.
>
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