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In article <85dp2v$321s$1@news.software.ibm.com>,
  "Scott Stanchfield" <thetick@jguru.com> wrote:
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I am currently trying to use IBM's Visual Age. It is slow (oh so slow)
and clunky. The Visual Composition Editor (VCE) component palette does
not have all (many, most) of the AWT or SWING components. Of course, I
just started using it and that could be the reason for some of my
difficulty.

Right now, I'm trying to construct a nested pull-down menu. Something
like the 'standard' FILE pull-down on Windows platforms. But, the
Visual Age palette does not have the required AWT (FileDialog) or
SWING (JFileChooser) classes in the component palette. This means
that I have to read the documentation and hope that it describes how
to incorporate visual classes into Java Code to effect nested pop-ups.
I don't know (yet) how much work there is having only spent 6-8 hours
in reading (so far). However, using Borland Builder C++, all of the
visual classes are available and the process seems easier.

So, alright for slow, great for reading, maybe wonderful for the
experienced, but really undesireable for the computing public.

art


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