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Article #17973Re: MenuBar inconsistencies
From: John Niesz
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 00:00
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the only problem with a workaround is that the bug is platform dependent. is there any way in java to detemrine the OS being used? Richard Wilkman wrote: > John: > > We do this the same way we do it in C, C++, etc. Acknowlege that the > bugs exist, find workarounds to solve our problems and deliver our > products and keep up so we know when fixes come about. I haven't > worked a language/api that wasn "rife with bugs" yet, so I don't know > anything else. > > In this case, decide if having this fix is worth one of your JDC votes > (and convince a few friends as well) and vote for the bug. Worked for > the Linux folks (current #1 bug on BugParade). > > The other thing I do is keep revisiting pet bugs on the Parade. > Oftentimes someone comes along and shares how they've worked around or > solved the problem. > > -Rich > > John Niesz wrote: > > how are we to make usable programs if the JDK itself is rife > > with bugs? > -- > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Rich Wilkman > Senior Quality Assurance Engineer > Borland JBuilder Team > > If you see something that looks like an opinion up there, > it's mine and mine alone. > > Mail sent to me from the newsgroups won't bounce but will > be ignored. If I have time, I'll respond, but you have > a better chance if you confine your posts to the newsgroups > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f74b3,eb9a336ede413ec0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74b3,public From: John Niesz <sunrunner15@worldnet.att.net> Subject: Re: MenuBar inconsistencies Date: 1998/08/26 Message-ID: <35E4C4EF.CE768F7@worldnet.att.net> X-Deja-AN: 385129246 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <35E0EAC0.700F2365@worldnet.att.net> <35E38DF8.1DC943A7@worldnet.att.net> <35E43874.5A60FAEB@inprise.com> To: Richard Wilkman <rwilkman@inprise.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: borland.public.jbuilder.java.language