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MelX

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Monday, November 21st 2011, 9:54am

Confused about portability??

Are programs made with Jabaco cross-platform?

It says Jabaco executables will run on any platform that supports Java, but aren't controls like Winsock on Windows only?

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Monday, November 21st 2011, 5:13pm

RE: Confused about portability??

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Are programs made with Jabaco cross-platform?
Yes. So long you don't use the command called WinAPI. Because WinAPI makes use of [ MativeCall/ ], which gives the possibility to use Windows Native functions in Java - and so in Jabaco.

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It says Jabaco executables will run on any platform that supports Java, but aren't controls like Winsock on Windows only?
With Winsock I am not sure. But I think JasonS using it in some of his programs. And his programs running on Linux, too.

Btw: From the Jabaco-samples the Plotter Applet. Here is a screenshot of it running on Linux:


With Jabaco created programs are platformindependet. But sadly Jabacos Compiler and IDE need Windows.

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2011, 9:20am

Thank you. I know Jabaco is supposed to be cross platform, but Winsock having Win in the name gives me some doubts. Maybe it's a Winsock emulation, but it's a little hard for me to tell.

It would be nice if it's cross platform. Any confirmation on this? I can't really test at the moment. :(

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2011, 10:45am

Hi MeIX,

see this thread with example:

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Tuesday, November 22nd 2011, 6:40pm

Ow...that's quite amazing. Jabaco could use a different name for the control though. Thanks!

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Friday, November 25th 2011, 11:22pm

Hi,

The winsock control definetly works on all platforms I have tried... Slackware, Ubuntu, and OpenSuse Linux; Windows 2000, XP (32 & 64), Vista (32 & 64), 7 (32 & 64). MacOS and Mac OS X also have been tested. The only things I have had issues in general with is playing wav resources on one flavor of linux. Mac & Win and most versions of linux are fine w/ sound though. That isn't a control though :)

Reguards,
Jason

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