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Most productive night drinking ever

When we got a little too drunk for that, we started in on the source code to my FeedReader. We hacked around until we figured out a way to embed a JDIC browser in a TopComponent.

That was cause enough for the celebratory drinks to migrate from beer to whiskey. After that, a bunch of other folks from the netbeans team showed up. Once I got a complete rundown of Czech history over the last century, I said a fond farewell and caught the caltrain home.

Now it's bedtime.

Comments

• So Rich,
  Did the design hold up after you sobered up? ;-)

  -- John

  Posted by: johnreynolds on July 01, 2005 at 06:00 AM

• I'm waiting for a response to our post on the JDIC forum to find out :)

  Posted by: richunger on July 01, 2005 at 09:29 AM

• I hear you saying "I'll never go drinking again with Czechs or Germans" :-)
  I have been trying this myself earlier, but I stopped thinking that it would never work due to the heavyweight/lightweight problem. I understood that you can only have native components either behind or in front of Swing components. And the browser would need to be behind popup menus but sometimes also in front of other TopComponents.
  Cheers,
  Andre

  Posted by: eickler on July 04, 2005 at 12:25 AM

• Andre, we missed you! It wasn't the same without you :)

  I also thought it might take work in the JRE classes (or even lower down in the native stack) to make mixing heavy/lightweight classes work correctly. But, when we looked at the JDIC source, Jarda immediately saw the differences between assumptions made by netbeans' TopComponent and by jdic's WebBrowser.

  Posted by: richunger on July 04, 2005 at 06:59 AM

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