EditList
Installation & Compatibility

Installation

Download the EditList zip file and unzip.  This will create a EditList folder containing both code and documentation.

To access documentation, use your favorite browser to view the file EditListREADME.html.

To use EditList as a JavaBean, copy EditList.jar into the jar folder appropriate for your visual application builder:
        for the JavaSoft BDK BeanBox: \bdk\jars
        for the IBM WebRunner BeanTester: \webrunner\BeanTools\beantester\beans
        for Symantec Visual Cafe: can place the .jar anywhere (use "Insert: Component to Library..." command, then add to desired palette)

To use EditList as an ordinary class, since EditList comprises a group of classes in package com.wildcrest.EditList, the folder com\wildcrest\EditList needs to be accessible from your class path. You need to do one of the following four things:

1. Modify your classpath to point to the (top-level as unzipped) EditList folder
2. Pick a folder in your current classpath that does not already have a com folder. Copy EditList's com folder into it.
3. Pick an existing com folder in your current classpath that does not have a wildcrest subfolder.  Copy the wildcrest subfolder into your existing com folder
4. If you already have a com\wildcrest folder in your classpath, copy EditList's com\wildcrest\EditList subfolder into it

Compatibility and known problems

EditList was developed under JDK 1.1.5 on Windows 95.  It has been tested with the following systems:

Windows:

EditList works successfully on Windows with:

• JDK 1.1.1, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, and 1.1.6 on Windows 95
• JDK 1.2beta3 on Windows 95 and NT
• Netscape Communicator 4.04 (JDK1.1.4) on Windows 95 and NT
• JavaSoft BDK 1.0 BeanBox February 98 release on Windows 95
• IBM WebRunner BeanTester 1.3 on Windows 95

• Symantec Cafe 2.5 on Windows 95
• intermittently fails to refresh background when bringing up the text property editor, but typing any key repaints correctly
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
• Right mouse click does not bring up the edit dialog unless you click on an unselected item (Internet Explorer incorrectly masks mouse events on selected items)
• The edit dialog gets hidden behind the browser window so you must move the browser window and manually activate the edit dialog (Explorer does not  honor "show" or "toFront" window activation calls relative to the browser window even though it contains the applet).

EditList has problems on Macintosh using:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
• When you make the edit dialog active, the system turns off the highlighting on selected items in the list, so though editing works correctly, you have to remember what was highlighted
• Explorer does not correctly honor "show" or "toFront" calls relative to the browser window, so the edit dialog can get hidden behind it.  You must move the browser window and manually activate the edit dialog.
• Under IE 4.0, List fails to produce MouseMotionListener events.  Until this is fixed, the drag reordering feature of EditList will not work.

• Netscape Communicator 4.04 (which claims to be a JDK 1.1.2 environment) fails to support many new JDK 1.1 classes required by EditList
• Applet Applet Runner and Metrowerks Java AppletViewer both load EditList, but neither generates mouse drag or pop-up click events, so EditList only works like a regular List.  Apple has posted bug reports that under MRJ 2.0 drag does not work for AWT List.  Tests reveal that MRJ 2.0 fails to produce either MouseListener or MouseMotionListener events.  Until these are fixed, none of EditList mouse-based features will work.

EditList works successfully on Solaris using:

• JDK 1.2beta3 on Solaris

• Netscape Communicator 4.04 (which claims to be a JDK 1.1.2 environment) fails to support many new JDK 1.1 classes required by EditList

Please report any difficulties with EditList on your configurations by email to products@wildcrest.com.  Be sure to include what Java release, OS, and development environment or bean tools you are using.  Efforts will be made to fix problems in EditList, but certain problems may be outside of its control or not possible for it to detect and/or correct.