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Hi guys...

I am getting a strange problem ("neither class nor source found") using
JBuilder 2.0 (JDK 1.1.6) with Swing 1.1.1. Namely, I am trying to run the
MacLookAndFeel class, after declaring a variable of this type as follows

private static final LookAndFeel macLookAndFeel = new
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.mac.MacLookAndFeel();

and JBuilder (but also JDK 1.2, from the command line) complains that it's not
there... However, I can see the file lying under that path, plus I can declare

private static final LookAndFeel motifLookAndFeel = new
com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel();

without problems - the MotifLookAndFeel files being in the same package,
com.sun.swing.plaf, as MacLookAndFeel). The even more strange thing is that,
if I do a right mouse click over the macLookAndFeel variable and select
"Browse symbol at cursor", the IDE (correctly) loads the MacLookAndFeel
class!!!

Could it be that Sun has incorporated an if statement in the class loader,
preventing MacLookAndFeel from even being compiled? I am aware that for
copyright reasons they don't allow running this LookAndFeel in Windows
platforms (I run NT 4.0), but my impression so far was that one could
"surpass" this limitation by doing a simple method overload, like

    private static final LookAndFeel macLookAndFeel = new
              com.sun.java.swing.plaf.mac.MacLookAndFeel()
    {
        public boolean isSupportedLookAndFeel()
        {
            return true;
        }
    };

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dimitris

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