Java comes along. Java is C++ with all of the powerful innards stripped out, so now you can't do things as quickly or efficiently. To compensate for this loss of speed, Java is interpreted.
powerful innards? - oh you mean Multiple Inheritance , Operator Overloading, and Dangling Pointers:) That garbage was taken out because of the unmaintable code that it helped to create. If you need the speed of c for writing something like a 3D shooter then use it! The issues that freenet has are not related to application speed but bandwith, and that is definetly a language independant problem. But if you still need some of those "power innards" write JNI code for your java to use.
BTW, have you taken a look at IBM's JDK1.3 for linux? It might not be the language to write something like OpenGL in yet, but it's JIT compilier breaks the bytecode down fast as hell.
I think it's important to remember that Linux, in theory, is free. I say in theory because you still have to pay for the distribution CD, or the download time. Which, in my opinion, makes this whole free thing a load of BS--Linux is just a VERY afordable server OS
So then what the hell do you consider free? Do you want to just make a phone call and have them send you a distro?. -wait that wont work, you have to pay for the phone call. I know, how about an 800 number, yeah that'll work!. No, you still have to buy a computer! I know, have Red Hat or some company send you a PC !!! Damnit!!, where are you gonna plug this PC into!. Maybe a you can get someone to pay your electric bill - yeah that would work! Now you just need one of these linux companies to pay you other bills because your at home playing with linux instead of working. Then linux would be free.
Enough ranting you get the point. Linux is free because you dont need to pay a licensing fee to use it. And you can modify the source if you want to because its open. -duh
What's wrong with Epic's approach with Unreal Tournament? They Sell a "Windows" version of the game and let you download a small Linux executable.
Most of the game's content is the same because textures, models and sound binaries are cross-platform already. The AI and gameplay is handled by Tim Sweeney's UT script. He has his own "virtual machine" that reads that stuff in, and despite that extra layer the game still rocks
Sure his UTScript interpreter for Linux was some work as well, but it allowed him to develop the game he wanted without designing around a particular OS.
This type of game development is definetly the way to go. Too bad Blizzard doesn't have some of Epic's talent.
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I played Starcraft64 at E3 Last Year... looked like crap. What really pisses me off though is that i gotta keep that windows partition on my hard drive for Diablo2. Just when I thought i was done with windows because of the UnrealTournament linux port.
Im sure this was just a flame but i'll answer anyways.
If you want to resize a JDialog or a JFrame so that it is the size of the Total Chidren components' Preffered Size, or have the componentes contraints allow them to size independantly you would use a GridBag layout(which you would be better off using an IDE to do). If you want to stretch out a frame so that its components stretch out as well you could use a BorderLayout or just calculate all child compents and adjust their Bounds accordingly (which is ugly).
I didnt say I didnt know how create complex screens by hand, but how productive are you when you do everything that way? Obviously you haven't created any Enterprise level applications with complex GUI's. If you did I dont think your boss would be happy with you using a command line editor when you have fifty or a hundred screens to do and any kind of a deadline. Anyone can create a JButton and put it in the North section of BorderLayout. Wow huge feat.
It is clear by your embarrassing display of ignorance that you have never created a screen with so much as ten components using a GridBag so that resizing works correctly. What fun that would be to correctly make constraints by hand for each component.
Are you using Jedit for a GUI application? If you wanna get some serious Java Swing/GUI work done you should be using a real IDE like Visual Age or JBuilder or even Forte Its almost impossible to do a complex screen using something like a GridBagLayout on a text editor even if it does some key-word color changing and indenting.
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Java comes along. Java is C++ with all of the powerful innards stripped out, so now you can't do things as quickly or efficiently. To compensate for this loss of speed, Java is interpreted.
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powerful innards? - oh you mean Multiple Inheritance , Operator Overloading, and Dangling Pointers
That garbage was taken out because of the unmaintable code that it helped to create.
If you need the speed of c for writing something like a 3D shooter then use it!
The issues that freenet has are not related to application speed but bandwith, and that is definetly a language independant problem.
But if you still need some of those "power innards" write JNI code for your java to use.
BTW, have you taken a look at IBM's JDK1.3 for linux? It might not be the language to write something like OpenGL in yet, but it's JIT compilier breaks the bytecode down fast as hell.
I think it's important to remember that Linux, in theory, is free. I say in theory because you still have to pay for the distribution CD, or the download time. Which, in my opinion, makes this whole free thing a load of BS--Linux is just a VERY afordable server OS
So then what the hell do you consider free?
Do you want to just make a phone call and have them send you a distro?. -wait that wont work, you have to pay for the phone call.
I know, how about an 800 number, yeah that'll work!.
No, you still have to buy a computer!
I know, have Red Hat or some company send you a PC !!!
Damnit!!, where are you gonna plug this PC into!. Maybe a you can get someone to pay your electric bill - yeah that would work!
Now you just need one of these linux companies to pay you other bills because your at home playing with linux instead of working. Then linux would be free.
Enough ranting you get the point. Linux is free because you dont need to pay a licensing fee to use it. And you can modify the source if you want to because its open. -duh
"Yesterday, Microsoft executives denied that C# was related to the rumored Cool project."
Does that mean that C sharp in not cool?
When is M$ gonna do something cool?
What's wrong with Epic's approach with Unreal Tournament? They Sell a "Windows" version of the game and let you download a small Linux executable.
Most of the game's content is the same because textures, models and sound binaries are cross-platform already. The AI and gameplay is handled by Tim Sweeney's UT script. He has his own "virtual machine" that reads that stuff in, and despite that extra layer the game still rocks
Sure his UTScript interpreter for Linux was some work as well, but it allowed him to develop the game he wanted without designing around a particular OS.
This type of game development is definetly the way to go. Too bad Blizzard doesn't have some of Epic's talent.
I played Starcraft64 at E3 Last Year... looked like crap. What really pisses me off though is that i gotta keep that windows partition on my hard drive for Diablo2. Just when I thought i was done with windows because of the UnrealTournament linux port.
Im sure this was just a flame but i'll answer anyways.
If you want to resize a JDialog or a JFrame so that it is the size of the Total Chidren components' Preffered Size, or have the componentes contraints allow them to size independantly you would use a GridBag layout(which you would be better off using an IDE to do). If you want to stretch out a frame so that its components stretch out as well you could use a BorderLayout or just calculate all child compents and adjust their Bounds accordingly (which is ugly).
Hope that clears it up for you chickenshitt AC.
I didnt say I didnt know how create complex screens by hand, but how productive are you when you do everything that way?
Obviously you haven't created any Enterprise level applications with complex GUI's. If you did I dont think your boss would be happy with you using a command line editor when you have fifty or a hundred screens to do and any kind of a deadline.
Anyone can create a JButton and put it in the North section of BorderLayout. Wow huge feat.
It is clear by your embarrassing display of ignorance that you have never created a screen with so much as ten components using a GridBag so that resizing works correctly. What fun that would be to correctly make constraints by hand for each component.
Uh gimme vi yeah that's the ticket
Are you using Jedit for a GUI application? If you wanna get some serious Java Swing/GUI work done you should be using a real IDE like Visual Age or JBuilder or even Forte
Its almost impossible to do a complex screen using something like a GridBagLayout on a text editor even if it does some key-word color changing and indenting.