Re: Mac Java

In article <newscache$hwdywi$zuf$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Thomas Fritsch <i.dont.like.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Steve W. Jackson wrote:
Thomas Fritsch <i.dont.like.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm not familiar with Java on Mac. But I assume Apple+Q (on the Mac) is
the equivalent of Alt+F4 (on MS-Windows).
[...my obsolete stuff snipped...]

I'm afraid your assumptions are not valid. Alt-F4 is a "close window"
command on Windows. The "Apple" key is properly referred to in the Mac
community as the Command key, and Command-Q is the common keyboard
equivalent for exiting an application, analogous to File/Exit in most
Windows applications.
[...]
Apple's 1.5 API is at
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Java/Reference/1.5.0/appledoc/a
pi/index.html>, listing Apple's extensions.
[...]
Thanks for pointing me into the right direction. I didn't expect Apple's
Mac-Java to be so much different (or should I say "better" ?) than Sun's
Windows-Java.

I wouldn't say that the Java is any different or better. In some
circles, there are those who complain that it's slower and more
cumbersome on a Mac. But I do applaud the fact that they provide
relatively easy means of letting a Java app adapt to the traditional UI
that Mac users are accustomed to using. In 1.3.1 they had a separate
API, though I don't know what was different beyond extensions like
these. As of 1.4.2 and 1.5 they've kept it simpler, only using the
extensions and documenting some problems and/or quirks.

= Steve =
--
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama
.

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