Bluehorn’s Blog

'Java' Category

• Jan

  25

  2010

  Eclipse 3.5.1 mouse event problems with gtk >= 2.18

  Recently, Eclipse started ignoring clicks on dialog buttons for me. This seems to be due to some changes in gtk 2.18. It does not use native windows for all widgets anymore, and SWT seems to rely on it.
  Thanks to this blog post, I have this fix in my bashrc:
  1alias eclipse="GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=true eclipse"
  The Debian bug tracker also [...]

  posted in Debian, Java by admin

• Mar

  17

  2009

  Enforcing the aspect ratio of a Swing widget

  Sometimes, a widget only looks good at a given aspect ratio (movies, pictures, etc.).
  I wrote a small Swing container for this task today, which you can find at my trac installation. There is also a small example program.
  Usage boils down to using
  parent.add(new AspectRatioContainer(4.0/3.0, widget)).
  instead of just
  parent.add(widget);
  Perhaps this is of use to somebody.

  posted in Swing by admin