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Known bugs and reported errors
During the development of this program we faced several internal Java bugs,
mainly on Swing packages and idiosyncrasies of operating systems. So, depending
on the Java version you have, and the operation system you're working on,
you may experience different behaviors. Under X we noticed slight differences
too.
- Under X, text components do not show the
caret (text cursor), but all characters you type in are showed as if there's
nothing wrong. This seems to be related to the window manager (olwm, olvwm,
fvwm, etc.).
- Some dialogs are not completely painted
when they appear on the screen, in such a way that their lower components
are not appropriately viewed.
- All windows are opened but no component is
painted when the graphical user interface is running through a X connection.
But is worthy noting that we had some successful cases with AIX and Linux
X servers. The problem seems to be in some Solaris/Xsun wrong configuration.
We are still working on this problem, but are almost sure that this is
not in our code.
- Sometimes, don't ask me when, it hangs when
the GUI shows a modal dialog on X. Our thought about that it's that
we found a swing bug on the event dispatch thread. But we are still
trying on this because it makes the work almost impossible.
- During installation everything goes fine.
But when the 'Close' button is pressed the Install Wizard closes normally
and the program does not quit. Well, this seems to be another java bug
in
Runtime.exec and Process.waitFor methods when the
installer waits to be notified of the wizard termination. We will change,
in version 1.2.X, the way our code does things to avoid this pitfall. To
keep working just press CTRL-C, because all files are already installed.
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