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Eric J. Schwarzenbach wrote:
> I just installed swing 1.1beta2 into Jbuilder 2--it compiles and runs
> fine, but I get a big old error when I try to access the help system
at
> all...for example clicking on "Help topics". Does anyone know what the
deal is
> here or if there is a work around?

> I installed swing 1.1Beta2 the same way that I installed swing1.0.3
using tips
> posted here and that has been working fine for weeks.

Not only did the help system stop working, the component tree and object
inpector panes in the visual designer came up blank (perhaps the main
window too--I forget).

But I've got it working now. I had to revert to the old swingall.jar
(swing 1.0.3--I had already replaced the original 1.0.1 that shipped
with Jbuilder 2), make my swing1.1 library point to the swingall.jar in
my swing1.1Beta2 installation direcotry instead of the jbuilder\bin one,
and create a "JBCL with swing 1.1" library that was the same as the old
one except for path changes for swing 1.1.

I believe with this method I can have projects using either swing 1.1 or
swing 1.0.3, just by choosing different libraries, and go back and forth
with no effort.

This all seems to work fine--the app builds and runs (and I'm using a
method that doesnt exist in 1.0.3 so I know its being used), help system
works, the designer works. It wasn't all that hard to do, either--I
didn't even need to edit any INI files.

So now I'm wondering, what's the catch? The recipes for getting new
versions of swing working that I've seen posted in these newsgroups seem
to all involve replacing jbuilder's swingall.jar file. Am I losing
something by not doing this? I assume that jbuilder itself, particularly
the parsing used for the designer views and such, is still using the old
swing, even though I can compile and run with the new one. So I loose
the display of swing1.1 features in the designer? (not much of a loss
considering the designer doesn't handle some swing components very well
to start with...)

If I'm missing something, someone please let me know.

Eric