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Applications

Posted by Jason Tryon on June 01, 2001 at 2:36 PM

> Hi folk,

> Currently, I have some problems with Java applications on my machine. My machine has around 800 MB ram, 1G Hz Cpu so there should be no quesiton about my machine. These applications have problem with mouse click. For example, when i click the main menue and select something from pull down, a trail of marks is left on the pull down menu. Also, when I scroll down or up all the text seems mixed up making it impossible to read until I click mouse somewhere. This is strange and I don't have any solution. Would somebody tell me as what is wrong?

> Thanks

> James

It doesn't sound to me like the problem is java, or your machine per se. I have found that some application engines don't like things like scroll bars on mice and such. I develop in VisualAge Java and it doesn't like scroll bars one bit, the error log goes nuts every time I try to scroll up or down using the wheel. I've also noticed behavior similar to what you describe in ScriptBuilder. You might want to take a couple of different tacks on this type of problem. First, (This kind of assumes that you're running a Windows environment) you could try switching your mouse driver over to a standard Microsoft mouse. Check your documentation first to make sure this won't cause other things to fail. If this solves your problem, it isn't actually the mouse, or the application, it's most likely Windows and your video driver. Another and probably simpler venue to explore would be to update to the most recent driver for your mouse and or video card.

I don't know if this rambling will help you or if it is even on target at all, but you might want to give it a try.

Regards,

Jason