[Bluej-discuss] Experience with Java 6.0

[Adonikam Virgo]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:00:52 +0000 Davin McCall <davmac at bluej.org> wrote:
 > Sorry for the slow response but I believe Java 6.0 should have no problems
 > with BlueJ. I've tested it myself on two machines, both running linux, and
 > though it seems to cause occasional lockups on one of them I believe this not
 > a problem with Java (or BlueJ) but rather with the fairly outdated Fedora Core
 > distribution which I am running on that machine.

Hello,

Just thought I'd give my belated input on this issue. I have experienced minor 
input lockups of red/moe using Java 6 with both the stable and development 
releases of bluej. I doubt that this is due to problems in bluej, but I thought 
I would document it here as a curiosity. To reproduce:

$ bin/bluej/bluej -version
BlueJ version 2.2.0 preview (Java version 1.6.0)
--
virtual machine: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 1.6.0-b105 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)
running on: Linux 2.6.19-beyond2 (i386)
$ AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit bin/bluej/bluej
Open editor, if compiled, make a change
Return focus to main window
Click Compile button on main window
Return focus to editor, attempt to make a change
To fix, click Compile in the editor window

So if anyone else has the same problems, perhaps due to their use of a 
compositing window manager, the fix is to use XToolkit (the default) instead.

Regards,
-- 
Adonikam Virgo