Java 1.5 + Swing + Java 'LAF' + WinXP + Taskbar doesn't appear ? - Java

On Jan 27, 11:05 pm, "Bill" <w...@optonline.net> wrote:
...
> I'm ... running under WinXP.
>
> My XP taskbar is set to 'auto-hide'.
>
> When my GUI is maximized, the WinXP taskbar doesn't appear when I move
> my cursor to the bottom of the screen.
>
> Question.
>
> Is this 'normal'

Note.

Questions should end with a '?'.

To your question.
I trimmed the above carefully to represent
my own system.

I specifically trimmed the part about Java
and Look and Feel, because I can observe
that behaviour when I maximise the Windows
OS component and attempt to find the task
bar - mo JVM in the picture.

So. I'd say it is relatively common, and if
you mean 'normal' in that sense, then - yes.

(Others feel free to chime in with 'get yourself
a real OS'..)

Andrew T.

"Andrew Thompson" <andrewthommo> wrote in message
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> On Jan 27, 11:05 pm, "Bill" <w...@optonline.net> wrote:
> ..
>> I'm ... running under WinXP.
>>
>> My XP taskbar is set to 'auto-hide'.
>>
>> When my GUI is maximized, the WinXP taskbar doesn't appear when I
>> move
>> my cursor to the bottom of the screen.
>>
>> Question.
>>
>> Is this 'normal'
>
> Note.
>
> Questions should end with a '?'.
>
> To your question.
> I trimmed the above carefully to represent
> my own system.
>
> I specifically trimmed the part about Java
> and Look and Feel, because I can observe
> that behaviour when I maximise the Windows
> OS component and attempt to find the task
> bar - mo JVM in the picture.
>
> So. I'd say it is relatively common, and if
> you mean 'normal' in that sense, then - yes.
>
> (Others feel free to chime in with 'get yourself
> a real OS'..)
>
> Andrew T.
>
======================================

>- mo JVM in the picture.



Sound like you're having trouble with your MoJo ?


Bill

As for operating systems;

George 3
Digico RTS-16
Data General Eclipse - ?
Prime - Primus ?
CP/M
DOS
VM
MVS
Windows 3.1+ all the rest
OS2

- not sure what you mean by a 'real' operating system? If you mean a Unix
variant, then probably the nearest equivalent would be George 3. Of couse
MVS has Unix 'built-in'. The company I work for is moving away from small
stand alone servers, and is instead creating logical Unix servers running
under MVS. They claim they can create a logical server in 10 minutes, as
opposed to ordering a server, then another qa server, then a development
server, then a sandbox server, then finding room to install 4 servers,
(production & backup servers can't be in the same datacenter), and then
actually installing software on them all.

Bill wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a Java 1.5 + Swing - GUI application.
> I'm using Java 'Look & Feel' and running under WinXP.
> My XP taskbar is set to 'auto-hide'.
> When my GUI is maximized, the WinXP taskbar doesn't appear when I move
> my cursor to the bottom of the screen.
> Question.
> Is this 'normal'

I don't know about normal but certainly annoying.
Eclipse IDE does this to me often, but not consistently.
Sure would like to know why. Better, how to fix it.

> TIA
> Bill

Jeff Higgins wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have a Java 1.5 + Swing - GUI application.
>> I'm using Java 'Look & Feel' and running under WinXP.
>> My XP taskbar is set to 'auto-hide'.
>> When my GUI is maximized, the WinXP taskbar doesn't appear when I move
>> my cursor to the bottom of the screen.
>> Question.
>> Is this 'normal'
>
> I don't know about normal but certainly annoying.
> Eclipse IDE does this to me often, but not consistently.
> Sure would like to know why. Better, how to fix it.

It's as though Java somehow gets confused between Maximized and
Full-screen (as when you hit F11 on most modern web browsers).

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"

On Jan 27, 4:05 am, "Bill" <w...@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a Java 1.5 + Swing - GUI application.
>
> I'm using Java 'Look & Feel' and running under WinXP.
>
> My XP taskbar is set to 'auto-hide'.
>
> When my GUI is maximized, the WinXP taskbar doesn't appear when I move
> my cursor to the bottom of the screen.
>
> Question.
>
> Is this 'normal'
>
> TIA
>
> Bill
I've seen this happen with any number of applications, Java or
otherwise. I'd say its more a bug of Windows than anything else.