hi!
I just felt that I should vent a little bit.
I developed an desktop application in java. Initially for the pc , the idea was to create a macintosh version using the same (or similar code). This was my first time that I was doing something like this, so I expected some minor issues to come up.
At first it was no big deal, some of my gui's had to be redesigned to fit the mac design scheme. Also I had to do some very minor backtracking to java 1.4.12 - simply because I wanted to develop for the lowest grade mac that I could (with os 10.3.9 or higher). THis involved some extremely minor touchups to code!
So far this is a fantastic experience, in a couple of days I was able to get the majority of my application running on the mac!
Then it turned for the worse - I had a graphics2d item that appeared on the screen for a "preview" of what their program output would be. This became one of 2 major headaches. What i finally discovered, is that by setting the a non-default font for text I was printing out - I needed to adjust every piece of text that I had printed out to about half. What I mean is that if I wanted to print text to coordintate space 10, 20. I needed to write it out to space 5,10. Why?!?!?! It made no sense to me. Default text writes out in the proper place, and when a font was set I needed to print out to half the space. PLUS, at times ridiculous things would happen. for instance I would print line 1 at 5,10. and the next line which should be printed out at 15,10 under the halving rule, I would have to print to 7.5,10!
UCH! But I finally got that piece working.
Now the final output of the program takes the same information and writes it to an image double the size of the earlier image. needless to say I am still struggling with it, as the output is always non-standardized. for instance I cannot determine when to print out in the correct original pc location, or if I need to halve it, or if I need to adjust the font-metrics measurements to meet the new oddity of a (1/2 fontwidth) equalling a full font width. Therefore never being able to properly and dependably center a line of text.
I want to throw my macintosh out the window.
Anyway, sorry for venting here, but its extrememly frustrating.
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