Re: user interface fails under UNIX (but works with Windows!)

From: FISH (joeking_at_merseymail.com)
Date: 07/08/04 

Date: 8 Jul 2004 04:10:21 -0700

Kamran Karimi <karimi@cs.uregina.ca> wrote in message news:<40EC8471.E45BC902@cs.uregina.ca>...
> Hello all,
>
> A program I am writing, called TimeSleuth and available from
> http://www.cs.uregina.ca/+AH4-karimi/downloads.html, has a problem when I
> run it under IRIX 6.5 that so far I have not been able to solve . The
> same program, however, works when run in Windows.
>
> *) In the toolbar, the buttons' names disappears. Icons are shown,
> however.
>
> *) In the text area, messages do not show, even though after a while of
> adding text I see a scroll bar appearing, meaning that something is
> being added, but not displayed.

Without the code it's impossible to fix. So, two guesses... the most
likely is that you've somehow set the foreground (text) colour to the
same as the background. Another alternative is that you are starving
some vital update thread. Threading is one of the few areas which works
slightly differently between implementations of Java. Windows time-
slices threads of the same priority (whether you want it to or not!)
while most Unix 'clones' leave control up to the programmer. It is
therefore possible to make some horrible threading mistakes on Windows,
and not realise it until you run your code elsewhere.

-FISH- ><>