Blank Frames in Legacy App

There are some compatibility issues for Java 1.3 applications moving to a Java 1.5 platform which are described here: Java Platform Migration Guide version 1.3 to 5.0 (http://java.sun.com/j2se/JM_White_Paper_R6A.pdf).

Swing changes from 1.3 to 1.4 can be found here: Search: Swing changes 1.3 to 1.4 (http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/index.jsp?qt=swing+changes+1.3+to+1.4&x=0&y=0&charset=utf-8&rf=0&rt=1&nh=10&cs=0&y=0&x=0&col=dev-reference).

Swing changes 1.4 to 1.5 can be found here: Search: Swing changes 1.4 to 1.5 (http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/index.jsp?qt=swing+changes+1.4+to+1.5&x=0&y=0&charset=utf-8&rf=0&rt=1&nh=10&cs=0&y=0&x=0&col=dev-reference).

There may be other problems due to poor or incorrect usage that is revealed by the platform upgrade.

Some debugging is probably required...

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Here's the basic source code: ...Er, yes... and?

I, for one, am not particularly interested in great blocks of unformatted and uncommented code, and I doubt many others are either. If you use the [ code ] tags to post it, it will display formatted (if it was formatted to begin with). If you expect anyone to look at it in detail, a few comments would be useful.

BTW, I'm not a free debugging service - I have a full time job, and I believe that organisations with programming problems should pay programmers to solve them.

Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever...
Anon.

Dang... Didn't mean to be insulting...No offence taken, and none intended.

The more experienced Java programmers here are generally happy to help people with their problems, but we all do it for free, in our spare time, and we generally don't like the idea of people trying to get a free ride - as in getting us to do their homework or assignments, or taking commercial advantage.

I apologise if this was not the case with your problem, but there's not many people running their own servers with home-grown software who can't sort out their own programs, or get close to the solution.

The other issue is that if people expect help, it is really only reasonable that they make some effort to present the problem clearly - posting full error messages, explaining the problem in detail, formatting and commenting code, etc. Why should we bother if they don't?

I have to say that I only speak for myself, but in the past the consensus has been along those lines. See the Submission Guidelines (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=217745).

Oh yeah, and sometimes I'm more irritable than other times, so sometimes my online responses can be less tactful than at other times. Mind you, have you seen some of the bite-yer-ankles stuff on the Sun Java forums?

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