JavaRanch: Mac OS

Alternate JRE for Intel Mac?

Thu, 8 May 2008 15:20:56 MDT

Hi folks,

Has anyone encountered an alternate JRE that can be used on Mac OS X? The one that comes with it has a significant bug that I cannot find a workaround for (JDialog subdialog z-ordering issue...) ?

-Jim

JDK 1.6 on OS X Leopard?

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:58:20 MDT

Does this update (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/javaformacosx105update1.html) mean that JDK 1.6 is now available for OS X Leopard?

New 3G iPhones at $199 (?)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:56:19 MDT

quote:
AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199...

Ref: CNN - AT&T to cut the price of Apple's new iPhone (http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/04/29/att-to-cut-the-price-of-apples-new-iphone/)

Leopard rocks the house

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:04:06 MDT

YEAAAAAHHH!

Buying a MacBook

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:43:02 MDT

OK, kids, time for a new Mac, and this time it's going to come out of my own nasssty pocketses. I'm looking at MacBooks. There are a lot of choices: there's a glossy vs. matte screen, the Hi resolution 17" vs. the regular 17", there's black and silver, there's faster or slower HDD RPMs, there's a couple of barely-different processor speeds... money is an issue only to the extent that I want to get my money's worth; I don't want to spend extra for something that doesn't really help.

This is going to be my workhorse machine; I'll use it for everything from coding to video editing to photoshop to gaming. Performance matters. It should be luggable (hence the MacBook) but airplane portability isn't an issue (I have this old G4 powerb...

Buying a MacBook

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:59:02 MDT

Buying a MacBook

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:48:59 MDT

Buying a MacBook

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:08:59 MDT

Buying a MacBook

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:32:59 MDT

Buying a MacBook

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:54:59 MDT

Buying a MacBook

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:47:08 MDT

Getting native Open, Save, Page Setup & Print easily

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 20:49:06 MDT

I've been told that if you use the "older" AWT methods to open and save a file, that you actually get the "newer" version which are available from Mac OS X. For example, when you open or save, the commands work like Mac users expect which is great. And you get the side-bar and the spotlight feature.

Also, with Page Setup and the Print command, I understand that if you use AWT instead of Swing that you get the Mac versions, such as being able to print to PDF file.

Does anyone see any problems with using these "older" AWT commands to get a more modern "Mac-Like" experience while retaining all of the advantages of Java?