🚀 go-pugleaf

after perusing the JDC Bug Parade, i found that this is indeed a bug in
JDK1.1.2, which continues until 1.1.6 (or so they say.  i have yet to update
my JDK), but the fix created another menubar bug.  Being the responsible
company that it is, Sun says it is putting off any fix for the new bug,
because it requires a major reworking of the menubar peers.  I, for one, do
not like having difficult-to-fix bugs persist merely because Sun would
rather fix the easy ones.  we developers suffer from these bugs, and we need
them fixed.  how are we to make usable programs if the JDK itself is rife
with bugs?  I hope that we will all make our feelings on this matter known
to Sun.

John

John Niesz wrote:

> In a program I've been working on, I'm using menus on 4 different Frame
> instances, not neccessarily all at the same time.  On two of them, the
> runtime recognizes the need for extra space to display the menu above
> the contents of the Frame itself, and it displays fine.  On the other
> two, however, it doesn't allocate the display space, and my components
> wind up getting pushed past the bottom of the window, forcing the user
> to manually resize the window (quite annoying).  I'm using JDK1.1.2
> (JBuilder 1.0 Pro version) and pack() all the windows AFTER adding the
> menubar AND the components.  The two that work use nested panels,
> whereas the two that don't work use only a single panel, but this is not
> the reason (I changed one of the ones that doesn't work to use nested
> panels and it still didn't work).
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and found a way around it?  Is this a
> bug in JDK1.1.2 that is fixed in later versions? (or worse, still not
> fixed?)
>
> Thanks for your help!
> John