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- MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
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- This file has two sections:
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- How to Find and Submit Bug Reports
- How to file bug reports and what to put in them.
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- How to Give Feedback
- Our e-mail address, and what we'd like to hear about.
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- HOW TO FIND AND SUBMIT BUG REPORTS
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- To get e-mail listing all known Swing bugs, please try our new buglist
- autoresponder. You'll get a single reply by writing to the following
- address:
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- swing-buglist-responder@qwerty.eng.sun.com
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- The Swing Connection's 911 page lists workarounds for some of Swing's
- most annoying bugs:
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- http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/swingdoc-current/911.html
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- The Java Developer Connection's bug page lets you search our bug
- database, giving you access to the complete text of bug reports:
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- http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/index.html
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- To encourage us to fix a particular bug very soon, please vote for the
- bug. You can do so by viewing the bug report in the Java Developer
- Connection, and then clicking the Vote button in the left margin.
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- If you need to file a bug, please submit it through java.sun.com:
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- http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
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- When asked for the product, choose the version of the JDK that you're
- using. For the subcategory, select classes_swing. If the bug is
- holding up your development, please also send e-mail to the Swing team
- (swing-feedback@java.sun.com). Tell us what the bug number is and what
- you need to be able to continue your development.
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- When you file a bug report, please include the following information:
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- - A program or code snippet that shows the problem.
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- - The platform you're using.
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- - A backtrace, if appropriate. This will tell us what the program is
- doing when the bug occurs. To generate a backtrace, do this:
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- 1. Go to the shell window in which you entered the 'java' command.
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- 2. Make sure it has the keyboard focus and that the interpreter
- ('java' command) isn't a background process.
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- 3. Enter the appropriate character:
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- Control-\ (Solaris)
- Control-Break (Win 95/NT)
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- 4. You should see a bunch of text in the window. Please put a copy
- of it into your bug report.
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- HOW TO GIVE FEEDBACK
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- We'd love to hear about what you're doing with Swing. We'd also like to
- hear your ideas for improvements and your concerns about Swing APIs,
- performance, bugs, packaging, and so on. Please keep in mind that our
- current focus is on improving Swing's reliability, performance, and
- documentation -- and not on adding new features. However, we welcome
- all feedback and we thank you for your support.
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- Please send your feedback to this e-mail address:
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- swing-feedback@java.sun.com
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- Keep in touch! Read The Swing Connection:
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- http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/swingdoc-current/
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