CDE Motif Forms

Hi
I dont know whether this is the correct forum to post the question but i think the issue might me because of some installation problems hence posting it here.
I have a Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 8 and sunrays and when i access oracle forms ( motif version) from the console as well as from sunray clients differ in display (format is not same) when i access the same forms connecting to same server from a windows machine using x-win( from starnet) , go-global ( www.graphon.com) , cygwin-xfree86(opensouuce) , VNC(opensource).
Oracle already came back with saying the problem is with x related and not oracle related hence
unable to understand is the problem because of some setting in motif on the server or , fonts on the clients ( WHich i tried with all combination of fonts misc, 100dpi , 75 dpi, openwin, suncde) without any luck or is there a bug or limitation to access motif across different mediums such as x-win and accessing locally.
Please help.
Thanks
Mohammed

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Component glass;
public ModalAdapter(Component glass) {
this.glass = glass;
// Associate dummy mouse listeners
// Otherwise mouse events pass through
MouseInputAdapter adapter =
new MouseInputAdapter(){};
glass.addMouseListener(adapter);
glass.addMouseMotionListener(adapter);
public void internalFrameClosed(
InternalFrameEvent e) {
glass.setVisible(false);
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println("Installed lookAndFeels:");
UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo[] lafInfo = UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels();
for(int i=0; i<lafInfo.length; i++) {
System.out.println(lafInfo.getName());
String lookAndFeel = null;
if (args.length>0)
lookAndFeel = args[0];
initLookAndFeel(lookAndFeel);
final JFrame frame = new JFrame(
"Modal Internal Frame");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(
JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
final JDesktopPane desktop = new JDesktopPane();
ActionListener showModal =
new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
// Manually construct a message frame popup
JOptionPane optionPane = new JOptionPane();
optionPane.setMessage("Hello, World");
optionPane.setMessageType(
JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
// JInternalFrame modal = optionPane.
// createInternalFrame(desktop, "Modal");
                    JInternalFrame modal = new JInternalFrame("test", true, true, true);
JPanel jp = (JPanel )modal.getContentPane();
          JComboBox jcb = new JComboBox(new String[]{"choice a", "choice b"});
jp.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          jp.add(jcb,BorderLayout.NORTH);
          jp.add(new JTextArea(),BorderLayout.CENTER);
// create opaque glass pane
JPanel glass = new JPanel();
glass.setOpaque(false);
// Attach modal behavior to frame
modal.addInternalFrameListener(
new ModalAdapter(glass));
// Add modal internal frame to glass pane
glass.add(modal);
// Change glass pane to our panel
frame.setGlassPane(glass);
// Show glass pane, then modal dialog
modal.setVisible(true);
glass.setVisible(true);
System.out.println("Returns immediately");
JInternalFrame internal =
new JInternalFrame("Opener");
desktop.add(internal);
JButton button = new JButton("Open");
button.addActionListener(showModal);
Container iContent = internal.getContentPane();
iContent.add(button, BorderLayout.CENTER);
internal.setBounds(25, 25, 200, 100);
internal.setVisible(true);
Container content = frame.getContentPane();
content.add(desktop, BorderLayout.CENTER);
frame.setSize(500, 300);
frame.setVisible(true);
private static void initLookAndFeel(String lookAndFeel) {
String lookAndFeelClassName = null;
UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo[] lafInfo = UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels();
for(int i=0; i<lafInfo.length; i++) {
if (lafInfo[i].getName().equals(lookAndFeel)) {
lookAndFeelClassName = lafInfo[i].getClassName();
if (lookAndFeelClassName == null)
System.err.println("No class found for lookAndFeel: "+ lookAndFeel);
try {
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(lookAndFeelClassName);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.err.println("Couldn't find class for specified look and feel:"
+ lookAndFeel);
System.err.println("Did you include the L&F library in the class path?");
System.err.println("Using the default look and feel.");
} catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e) {
System.err.println("Can't use the specified look and feel ("
+ lookAndFeel
+ ") on this platform.");
System.err.println("Using the default look and feel.");
} catch (Exception e) {
System.err.println("Couldn't get specified look and feel ("
+ lookAndFeel
+ "), for some reason.");
System.err.println("Using the default look and feel.");
e.printStackTrace();

Hi,
Had exactly the same problem. Seems there are plenty of similar problems all related to the glass pane, so have solved the problem here by putting the event-blocking panel onto the MODAL_LAYER of the layered pane, rather than replacing the glass pane. Otherwise pretty much the same technique - you may need a property change listener to track changes in the size of the layered pane
something like ...
layer = frame.getLayeredPane();
glass.setSize (layer.getSize()); // will need to track size
glass.add (modal);
layer.add(glass, JLayeredPane.MODAL_LAYER, 0);
I've modified the original examples so the frames can be re-used so you may have to play around with the example a bit
Hope it helps
cheers.

Strange JButton appearance for all LAFs except Windows

It took me a while to figure out how to repeat this problem, but I finally did. I have a simple BoxLayout container in a JFrame, and with Windows Look and Feel it looks as expected. With any other LAF on my system (Metal, Windows Classic, CDE/Motif) all buttons except one are displayed as if their insets are null. The button border is confined very close to the button text. Calling setSize() on the button doesn't make any difference.
What makes it strange is that I can't see why one button is displayed properly. And even stranger is the fact that it's not the button position that determines which one looks correct. Take a look at the test code below, which is a stripped down executable extract of my program. The JButton object "settings" is always displayed correctly, even If you re-arrange the arguments to the cbButtonPanel.add() methods so that "settings" is in a different position. I can't see anything different about how settings is defined or configured compared to the other buttons. I even gave them the same button text to eliminate that as the source of the difference.
If you run the test code with no program argument, it will default to Windows Look and Feel, and the buttons will look as I intended them to. But enter a LAF name for the argument (See the names provided on the console when you run the program) other than Windows and you'll see that all but one button are not displayed properly. (Note that for any multi-word LAF name, e.g. Windows Classic, you need to enclose the argument in quotes.)
The code seems to be a straightforward implementation of a BoxLayout managed container, as documented in the javadocs and the tutorial. Am I doing something wrong that Windows LAF lets me get away with?
import java.awt.Container;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.util.HashMap;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.Box;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException;
import javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo;
import javax.swing.border.Border;
public class RcbGuiTest{
     JFrame frame = null;
     int width;
     int height;
     JTextField fileSelect = null;
     JPanel cbButtonPanel;
     JButton sendFile = null;
     JButton copyCBToCB = null;
     JButton copyCBToFile = null;
     JButton settings = null;
     JButton restart = null;
     JMenuBar menuBar;
     JMenu helpMenu;
     JMenuItem about;
     JMenuItem help;
     JMenuItem readme;
     JMenuItem rcbWeb;
     HashMap lafMap = new HashMap();
     String lafName = "";
     public static void main(String[] args){
          if (args.length == 0){
               args = new String[]{"Windows"};
          final RcbGuiTest test = new RcbGuiTest(args[0]);
          SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
               public void run(){
                    test.createAndShowGUI();
     public RcbGuiTest(String lafName){
          this.lafName = lafName;
     public void createAndShowGUI(){
          Border raisedBevel = BorderFactory.createRaisedBevelBorder();
          frame = new JFrame("RCB Control Panel");
          //set up menu items
          menuBar = new JMenuBar();
          helpMenu = new JMenu("Help");
          about = new JMenuItem("About RCB");
          help = new JMenuItem("RCB Help");
          readme = new JMenuItem("Readme File");
          rcbWeb = new JMenuItem("RCB on the Web");
          helpMenu.add(about);
          helpMenu.add(help);
          helpMenu.add(readme);
          helpMenu.add(rcbWeb);
          menuBar.add(helpMenu);
          frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
          Container contentPane = frame.getContentPane();
          JLabel fileSelectLabel = new JLabel(
                    "Enter file name, select files, or drag and drop files");
          fileSelect = new JTextField(30);
          fileSelect.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(250,20));
          fileSelect.setSize(new Dimension(250,20));
          sendFile = new JButton("Button");
          sendFile.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(120,25));
          sendFile.setSize(new Dimension(120,25));
          JButton selectFile = new JButton("Button");
          copyCBToCB = new JButton("Button");
          copyCBToFile = new JButton("Button");
          settings = new JButton("Button");
          restart = new JButton("Button");
          sendFile.setBorder(raisedBevel);
          selectFile.setBorder(raisedBevel);
          copyCBToCB.setBorder(raisedBevel);
          copyCBToFile.setBorder(raisedBevel);
          restart.setBorder(raisedBevel);
          JPanel labelPanel = new JPanel();
          labelPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(labelPanel,BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
          labelPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,20)));
          labelPanel.add(fileSelectLabel);
          labelPanel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
          JPanel fieldPanel = new JPanel();
          fieldPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(fieldPanel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
          fieldPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,20)));
          fieldPanel.add(fileSelect);
          fieldPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,20)));
          JPanel fileButtonPanel = new JPanel();
          fileButtonPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(fileButtonPanel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
          fileButtonPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0)));
          fileButtonPanel.add(sendFile);
          fileButtonPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0)));
          fileButtonPanel.add(selectFile);
          fileButtonPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0)));
          fileButtonPanel.add(restart);
          fileButtonPanel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
          cbButtonPanel = new JPanel();
          cbButtonPanel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(cbButtonPanel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
          cbButtonPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0)));
          cbButtonPanel.add(copyCBToCB);
          cbButtonPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0)));
          cbButtonPanel.add(settings);
          cbButtonPanel.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(5,0)));
          cbButtonPanel.add(copyCBToFile);
          cbButtonPanel.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
          contentPane.setLayout(new BoxLayout(contentPane, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
          contentPane.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0,5)));
          contentPane.add(labelPanel);
          contentPane.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0,5)));
          contentPane.add(fieldPanel);
          contentPane.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0,5)));
          contentPane.add(fileButtonPanel);
          contentPane.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0,5)));
          contentPane.add(cbButtonPanel);
          contentPane.add(Box.createRigidArea(new Dimension(0,5)));
          width = 320;
          height = 180;
          fileSelect.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(width,20));
          frame.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(width, height));
          frame.setResizable(false);
          LookAndFeelInfo[] laf = UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels();
          for (int i= 0; i<laf.length; i++){
               System.out.println("LAF Name: " + laf.getName());
               lafMap.put(laf[i].getName(), laf[i].getClassName());
          String lafClassName = "";
          try {
               UIManager.setLookAndFeel( lafClassName = (String)lafMap.get(lafName));
               System.out.println("Using Look and Feel " + lafName + "\tclass name: " + lafClassName);
          } catch (ClassNotFoundException e1) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e1.printStackTrace();
          } catch (InstantiationException e1) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e1.printStackTrace();
          } catch (IllegalAccessException e1) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e1.printStackTrace();
          } catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e1) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e1.printStackTrace();
          SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(frame);
          frame.setVisible(true);

The problem turned out to be the setBorder() invocations I was making on the JButtons. This was left over from when I originally used a null layout manager, and the setBounds() calls were making the buttons appear at their desired size. The clue came when I discovered that I was setting the border on all buttons except settings, the one that was behaving properly. Why it behaved as expected with Windows LAF I have no idea.

Changing theme (look & feel) in ICAN505 Enterprise designer

Hello
I'm running different Enterprise designers against different repositories and I would like the GUI to appear in different "styles", to make it easier for me to recognise what ED/repository I'm running against.
I have identified the possibility to provide the alloy.theme parameter on the command line in runed.bat but I don't seam to get the hang of it.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Best regards

It's very easy. Navigate to edesigner\jdk\jre\lib\ext. Copy alloy.jar, the jar file for the alloy look and feel into this folder. Also, add a jar file containing a text file alloy.properties. This properties file would look like the following:
alloy.theme=bedouin
alloy.isLookAndFeelFrameDecoration=true
change the alloy.theme property for your various environments.
And add a file called swing.properties under edesigner\jdk\jre\lib folder. the sample swing.properties would look like:
swing.installedlafs = motif,windows,metal,mac,alloy
swing.installedlaf.motif.name = CDE/Motif
swing.installedlaf.motif.class = com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel
swing.installedlaf.windows.name = Windows
swing.installedlaf.windows.class = com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
swing.installedlaf.metal.name = Metal
swing.installedlaf.metal.class = javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
swing.installedlaf.mac.name = Mac
swing.installedlaf.mac.class = com.sun.java.swing.plaf.mac.MacLookAndFeel
swing.installedlaf.alloy.name = Alloy
swing.installedlaf.alloy.class = com.incors.plaf.alloy.AlloyLookAndFeel
swing.defaultlaf=com.incors.plaf.alloy.AlloyLookAndFeel
Start eDesigner to see the change....
Have fun....
Mac.

LibXp.so.6 is needed by openmotif21-2.1.30

I have Red Hat 5 64 bits.
I need install openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386.rpm
[root@srvrcotest rpms_gcl]# rpm -ivh openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libXp.so.6 is needed by openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386
[root@srvrcotest lib]# rpm -qa | grep libXpm*
libXpm-3.5.5-3
libXpm-devel-3.5.5-3
libXpm-3.5.5-3
libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
Regards,
Guido

I hope you are not looking for the CDE motif based desktop, like what is still used on some commercial platforms. Are you? If yes, you might find openmotif resourceful. In short CDE (dtwm) has since been phased out in favour of GNOME about 10 years ago and is no longer available, not for free. Openmotif is not CDE.
Anyway, the packages that provides libXp.so.6 are libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.i386 (32bit) and libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.x86_64 (64bit)
Do you have valid subscription to Red Hat? If yes then you can use the up2date utility to install openmotif and resolve the dependencies issue. Btw, if you were using Oracle Linux, you could configure free access to the public Oracle software repository and simply type "yum install openmotif" to install all the stuff.

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Hi,
i have some experience in Win32 development (SDK and MFC) and i have to write an application for Solaris/CDE/Motif.
So what i need are manuals/tutorials for Motif programming, a kind of hello world with some buttons to click on etc. So far i haven't found much on docs.sun.com what could be useful for me, so it would be very kind if you could point me to some links or books etc.
Thank you,
Chris

Hi Chris!
To make a Motif application is "a bit" different than a Win32 SDK application.
You should get your hands on the following books from O'Reilly & Associates:
Vol. 1 Xlib programming manual
Vol. 2 Xlib Reference Manual
Vol. 4 X Toolkit Intrinsics programming manual, Motif edition
Vol. 5 X Toolkit Intrinsics reference manual (motif)
Vol. 6A Motif programming manual
Vol. 6B Motif reference manual
Each book is about 500-900 pages. You could stick to the "minimum" with Vol. 4,5,6A,6B. But to understand what is going on, you would need vol. 1 and 2 as well.
Vol. 6A contains many nice "Hello World" examples.
Take a look under the "X Window" section on this page:
http://unix.oreilly.com/
Lars-Inge
Norway

Adding specific LookAndFeel

I would like to add a specific LookAndFeel to my application. Unfortunately I do not have the com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel+ installed on my computer. I ran the following bit of code to see which were installed on my computer and came up with what seems to be the default four...
public static void main (String[] args){
             UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo[] info = UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels();
             Map map = new TreeMap();
             for(int i=0; i<info.length;i++){
                String LFname = info.getName();
          String className = info[i].getClassName();
          System.out.println(LFname+" : "+className);
OUTPUT:
Metal : javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel
CDE/Motif : com.sun.java.swing.plaf.motif.MotifLookAndFeel
Windows : com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel
Windows Classic : com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsClassicLookAndFeelIs there a way to download and utilize the +_com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel_+ LookAndFeel on a Windows machine? Is there a way to include it within my source +_.class_+ files and have other people be able to use it on other machines as well?

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try { UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel"); }
            catch (InstantiationException e){...}
            catch (ClassNotFoundException e){...}
            catch (UnsupportedLookAndFeelException e){...}
            catch (IllegalAccessException e){...}but it looks like you may already know that.
pieman

JDev download does not support Linux

It is quite "interesting" that oracle.com annouces that Oracle is marked leader for Linux development, and then you get an error page when you try to download JDeveloper with either Mozilla or Opera from a Linux PC.
Perhaps you should take a meeting with the marketing deparment. They must have missed a point or two
Flemming

I have made a post in the Members Feed Back Forum, Not, that I do not like to use Mozilla, I just enjoin the freedom of having more browser to choose between, since one-size does not fit all.
Now that I have ported my development to Linux I have a few more Linux related questions:
1). Tools => Preferences => Environment
I can only choose between CDE, Motif and Oracle, which in my opion all look rather old fashion. Is this changing when the IDE runs on jdk1.4.2 in upcoming releases?
2) The default font in the Oracle look-and-feel is "slim and skinny". How do I configure the IDE font with one of ny system font sets?
3) Surprise. I cannot use Code Coach and even worse the profiler under Linux. When will that be possible? Seems a bit strange to me that Linux is Oracles preferred OS and
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