Re: Questions about new version

Hi Nascif,

I've changed your jswat-user subscription so that it has your sas.com 
address, instead of the acm.org address (otherwise Mailman won't let you 
post messages). If you want to have both addresses subscribed, let me know.

Now about your questions:

1. The README file has a link to the NetBeans site which documents the 
available launcher options. According to that page, it should support -h 
and --help, but maybe it isn't working. I'll check when I get the 
chance. In the meantime, here is the URL:

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/using-netbeans/configuring.html#switches

2. Okay, I'll look at adding spacers around the combobox. I admit, it 
does look a little big when the toolbar icons are at the large size 
setting, but looks fine when the icons are small (see the View menu).

As for an API for launching JSwat, there is none at the moment. I want 
to add support for the 'launch' JPDA flag, although that is a little 
different than what you're asking for. Let me know exactly what you're 
looking for and I'll enter an RFE. I can probably implement it for the 
next release.

Thanks

n


Nascif Abousalh-Neto wrote:
> Hi Nathan and all,
> 
> I am trying the latest 3.2 and I have some suggestions:
> 1) the executable doesn't answer to standard command-line flags like -? And --help
> 2) The combobox on the toolbar would look much better if you put it inside a GridBagLayout and added empty panels to the top and bottom to act as "spacers" and take the extra space.
> 
> And now for some questions:
> I wrote an Emacs extension for the 2.x versions that would launch Jswat from Emacs, using the attributes from the current Java Development Environment (JDE) to provide the source path, classpath, main class and args. I would like to do something similar for the current version, but I believe it is now impossible to pass those arguments in the command line. Is there any other option? 
> 
> If session options are kept in a text file, I could create this file from the JDE configuration and then point Jswat to it. It would be a step closer.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Nascif