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  • From: "John Howe" <warlock@arashi.com>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] Touch Graph Plant Family Tree
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 10:51:46 -0700 (PDT)

> Mozilla 1.4, with a Java 1.4.1 Plug-in running under Win98.
> Basically what I had running on my PC at home.
>
> Yes I know its pretty bug ridden, I'm note sure where the
> bug lies, its either in the TouchGraph stuff (which is potentially
> fixable) or its in Swing (the new fangled Java GUI, which only SUN
> can fix). I'm not the greatest fan of Swing which is too
> clever for its own good and there is a chance that the Applet
> is pushing Swing to its limits. I've had a number of similar
> problems myself.

The demo @ TouchGraph has the same empty node issues on Mac OS X IE as
well, so the problem may be in the TG library or in Swing.

> If you want to play with it
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/pcplantdb/PlantFamilyTree.tar.gz
> is a tar ball of the code and data. You may have better luck
> running it as a java application at home, i.e. using java
> rather than a browser.

Will do.

> Have you had similar results using the demos on the TouchGraph site?
> It might help to findout if the problem is our app or TouchGraph.

See above, seems to be an OS issue with TouchGraph.

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