Undecorated Icon JButtons
If you want your JButton to have no decoration across the standard look and feels, there's two things you need to do:
JButton myButton = new JButton(myIcon);
myButton.setBorder(BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder());
myButton.setContentAreaFilled(false);
setBorder prevents the Aqua look and feel from drawing a glassy aqua button
We need
setContentAreaFilled to prevent the XP look and feel from drawing a plastic luna button
It's unfortunate that the two look and feels don't use the same API to accomplish the same result.
# posted by Jesse Wilson
on Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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Burned by wildcard imports and SwingWorker
The following code uses
com.publicobject.swing.SwingWorker from the
Java tutorial:
package com.publicobject.demo;
import com.publicobject.swing.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class HelloWorldWorker extends SwingWorker {
private final JLabel label;
public HelloWorldWorker(JLabel label) {
this.label = label;
}
public Object construct() {
return "Hello World";
}
public void finished() {
label.setText((String)get());
}
}
It compiles fine under Java 5.
But in Java 6, it doesn't even compile! The problem is that the two imports conflict - there's my
SwingWorker, and the one Mustang provides in its
javax.swing package. If you're using
SwingWorker, you should fully qualify your imports now so when Java 6 comes, you're ready.
# posted by Jesse Wilson
on Thursday, February 09, 2006
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CorelDraw 11 for Mac is dead
I get the feeling that a recent software update for Mac OS X 10.4 has broken compatibility with CorelDraw 11, causing Corel Draw 11 to crash on startup. My
Mac OS X crash reporter message looks like this:
Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9073d2c0 CFStringGetCStringPtr + 408
1 CdrPrn.DLL 0x050f8374 GetDefaultPrinterName__11WPrnPrinterFP7CStringP7CStringP7CString + 116
2 CdrPrn.DLL 0x050dfa68 _ct__11WPrnJobInfoFP12WPrnDocument + 216
3 CdrPrn.DLL 0x0510545c _ct__12WPrnSettingsFv + 236
4 CdrPrn.DLL 0x050ce448 _ct__12WPrnDocumentFP18WPrnEngineInstance + 88
5 CdrPrn.DLL 0x050d9a44 AddDocument__18WPrnEngineInstanceFv + 52
6 CdrPrn.DLL 0x050d79c0 CreateNewDocument__18WPrnEngineInstanceFPP12IPrnDocument + 128
7 Draw.DLL 0x0497a2f8 InitDocument__8CDrawDocFv + 568
8 Draw.DLL 0x04979e5c OnNewDocument__8CDrawDocFv + 124
9 MacPort.DLL 0x0052c5c8 OpenDocumentFile__17CMultiDocTemplateFPCci + 264
10 Draw.DLL 0x048b219c OnNew__5CDrawFv + 268
11 Draw.DLL 0x04916600 ExecuteUsersOpenMethod__5CDrawFv + 880
12 Draw.DLL 0x049142d0 InitInstance__5CDrawFv + 3104
13 Draw.DLL 0x04964b28 StartApp + 216
14 Corel Draw App 0x000c0a80 WinMain__FP11HINSTANCE__P11HINSTANCE__Pci + 176
15 Corel Draw App 0x000c0ba0 main + 192
In debugging the problem, I tried everything google had to offer:
Pressing shift while the app starts up to "overwrite my workspace with the factory default"
Deleting the preferences files in /Users/jessewilson/Library/CorelDRAW 11 Preferences and com.corel.DRAW.plist
I also tried some other strategies which all failed:
Logging in as a brand new Mac OS X user to get a fresh set of preferences
Rebooting my Mac
Downloading the latest update to Corel Draw 11. 693
So what are my options?
Spend $2000 on an Intel Mac, $400 on a Windows emulator, and $400 for the latest Corel Draw for Windows
Try to find a copy of Corel Draw 10 for Mac on Amazon or ebay, cross my fingers and install that one
Hope some Internet surfer posts the fix in my blog comments!
# posted by Jesse Wilson
on Wednesday, February 08, 2006
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