I left several instances of JujuEdit running last night (3 running normally, 1 running in a Win98 emulation) as a sort of stress test. Each one was automatically scrolling back and forth through a large-ish document. I was hoping to see them all still running this morning, so as to be sure that I had fixed the aforementioned GDI resource problem.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get the chance to find out, since the first thing I did when I approached my computer was to hit the power button - the first thing I always do in the morning - automatically presuming the thing was switched off. Of course it wasn’t; the monitor had merely switched off in power saving mode. So I never found out if those apps were still running properly. *sigh* A programmer’s life is nearly always boring.

Later

Found and stomped another bug in JujuEdit while screwing around with HTML avoiding work. Playing with your own toys can be productive! The code I was editing was for displaying a quicktime VR style thing using a little Java app. That’s right, I hereby acknowlege that there are some cool things that can be done with Java! But, that said, how many people in the world know how to run a java application that they’ve downloaded in the form of a JAR file? How many people would even know what the hell I am talking about? The designers of early Java runtimes shot themselves in the foot when they assumed that their users should be able to understand class-paths. If I download a program in the form of an EXE, all I have to do to run it is double click (or press enter or whatever your preference is). If I download a program in JAR form then I have to type some bollocks on the command line like:

jre -cp "C:\Windows\Desktop\JavaApp.jar" javaapp

How unfriendly is that? In theory the new Java runtime fixes this, so I’m downloading it now to give it a go… Anyhoo, enough griping. I am using a groovy little app called ptviewer [created by the generous Helmut Dersch] to display this image. Click and drag the mouse withing the image to pan and tilt.

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