[jsword-devel] Odd bug in BD

[DM Smith]

Did find a bug report regarding the problem:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10572934/java-swing-mouse-pointer-shifted-on-context-menu-when-jframe-is-maximized

Still hopeful that building with Java 5 avoids the problem.
-- DM

On Mar 17, 2013, at 10:04 PM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> This is in the category of "It works for me"
> 
> I installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit and openJDK 7.
> 
> The nightly build is now created using Java 5 (which it should have been all along). Hopefully, this was the problem's fix.
> 	http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/jsword/nightly/bibledesktop-latest-bin.zip
> 
> I saved this on my desktop. Created a launcher for it, named "BibleDesktop.desktop" with the following contents:
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=2.0
> Name=Bible Desktop
> Comment=Bible Study
> Exec=/home/dm/Desktop/bibledesktop-2.0-beta/BibleDesktop.sh
> Icon=/home/dm/Desktop/bibledesktop-2.0-beta/bibledesktop_icon_512.png
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Categories=Utility;Application;
> 
> I then made it executable and double clicked on it. You'll obviously have to adjust this to your path.
> 
> I also ran BibleDesktop.sh in a terminal, which did the same thing but picked an ugly icon for the dock.
> 
> I found no mouse problems.
> 
> Let me know if it is any better for you.
> 
> -- DM
> 
> On Mar 16, 2013, at 10:30 AM, DM Smith <dmsmith at crosswire.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:40 AM, Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2013-03-05 at 22:33 -0500, DM Smith wrote:
>>>> Is this the release build or the nightly build? 
>>> 
>>> Nightly build.
>>> 
>>> I just now tried the 1.6 release, but it has no such problem
>> 
>> This is strange. I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. It should have.
>> 
>> I'm curious whether the Oracle supplied Java has the same problems.
>> 
>> Either way, I'd like BD to work well with openJDK on Ubuntu.
>> 
>> Recently I found out that if we use a more recent version of Java to target an earlier Java that we have to do it carefully to avoid problems. Currently we use Java 6 to build a Java 5 nightly build. We should use Java 5 to build it.
>> 
>> At runtime the version of Java can be more recent. It is best to use the most recent Java.
>> 
>> The BD code has not changed much. Only to accommodate the changes in JSword. That didn't touch the drawing or painting of the screens. I'll get back to you when I have sorted out the build. Right now it is broken.
>> 
>> In Him,
>> 	DM
>> 
>> 
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