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Features added since 2002

[1_5_pre1]
Oct 2006:	
	- bug fix: "Mac OS X Aqua" look'n feel was not properly reloaded
	in Preferences tabpane.
August 2006:	
	- simplified view/model mechanism; refactored DefaultViewFactory.
	- added support for internal dialogs (InternalFrameMDIManager)
	- more enum's instead of interfaces
	- made bounding-box displayable
July 2006:
	- improved popup menu (more contextual items)
	- improved support for local/global group editing (aka group
	  content edit w/o opening group)
	- model <-> view factory mapping is now dynamic through a
	  HashMap in DefaultViewFactory (may be changed at run-time)
	- converted code to Java 1.5: enums, generic, static
	  imports.
	- Safer type checking in PicAttributeName/PicAttributeSet
	  through generic methods.
[1_4_1]
December 2006:
	- bug fix: special paste didn't work with psbezier.
[1_4_pre5]
June 2006:	
	- bug fix for: [258141] infinite wait "Loading preferences..." 
	with a few window-managers under Linux
	- improved german translation by J. Hoffmann et al.
	- new curve plotter script by M. Perez
	- added new "join curves" method in PicMultiCurve. Aka
	  pscustom, yet less powerful since every element is converted
	  to a multicurve before joining.
February 2006:  
	- bug fix in AbstractCurveFormatter (psline related)
        - changed PsTricks to PSTricks
        - added new translations in online help + localized entries
December 2005:	
	- bug fix in PsCurve pstricks formatting
	- bug fix for: [ 1348102 ] duplicate polydots-size-minimum causes 
	parser to abend
	- bug fix for: [ 1196453 ] Wrong syntax for pstricks
April 2005 :	
	- added PsCurve (experimental)
	- it's now possible to rescale the whole picture from the 
	hosting TeX file through the \JPicScale macro.
	- bug fix in Cut action (was: undoable-event not recorded)
	- improved context dependent help-messages in DrawToolFactory.
	- bug fix in Grid class (was: grid line style not properly set)
	- file chooser: default file extension now depends on
	  current content-type (e.g., PsTricks or Eepic)
[1_4_pre4]
X-mas 2004 : 	
	- fixed several bugs in installer (OS detection + bugs specific to MacOS-X).
	- fixed bug in group geometry customizer (width/height not properly reported).
	- bug fix in PageFormat/PECanvas's auto-formatting algorithm (bug
	when all objects had negative coordinates).
	- improved efficiency of HTML reader for on-line help and API doc.
	- added a handful of new BSH macros
XX/11/2004 :	
	- added support for editing parallelograms and ellipses with centre kept fixed
	- added support for editing parallelograms with a "square" constraint.
	- bounding-box now saved in XML preamble
	- added red mouse-markers in top and left rulers
	- EditPointMouseTransformFactory : added support for 
	PicSmoothPolygon's coefficients editing with the mouse
	- added conversion from ellipses to Bezier curves
	- when converting an Element into another (e.g. parallelogram 
	-> multicurve), z-ordering is now retained (work-around = Drawing.replaceElement)
	- added support for multiple grid styles
	- added a widget to change the grid step + added new menu item 
	in preferences tabpane
	- added center-viewport button
	- improved setSymmetric() and setSmooth() for Bezier curves so 
	that these methods also handles properly the case when both the`
	control- and the subdivision-point are similar.
	- improved popup-menu for Bezier curve: now permits editing 
	properties of a single point or segment at a time
	- improved drawing scheme for Bezier curve: ultimate right-click 
	allows to set tangent on last end-point.
	- added shear transform [pending: shear tool in toolbar]; 
	so far, use a BSH script.
	- Bug fix: several menu's remained "grayed" when opening a picture
	from file and no sheet had previously been open.
	- Added a customizer for arrow parameters in dockable attribute-toolbar.
	- Also improved attribute-editor layout.
	- Brought on-line help up-to-date with new capabilities.

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[1_4_pre3]
17/04/2004 :	
	- bug fix: "close file" in menu "file" didn't work + numerous other bugs related to frame activation.
	- partial bug fix: shadowing behavior under jPicEdt shows some discrepancies with PsTricks one.
	- bug fix (VG): PsCustom parameters not saved in XML part of output file.
	- bug fix (VG): improved handling of borders/shadows in \\pscustom command (AbstractCurveFormatter).  
03/04/2004 :    
	- bug fix: "fillstyle=black" was not set by default. Hence filling with black
	  produced a whitened shape, because PsTricks doesn't seem to fill in black by default,
	  whereas jPicEdt does. As a work-around, i simply added \psset{fillcolor=black} in the preambule.
	- buf fix: "userLineColour,]" syntax error when formatting to PsTricks. Was due to improper
	  "if/else" handling in pstricks.AbstractCurveFormatter.formatPsDots
	- added automatic page-format fitting on loading
	- bug fix: circles defined from 3 points were not properly copied to clipboard.

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[1_4_pre2]
01/11/2003 : 	
	- cleaned-up icons in jpicedt/images and i18n files
	- improved PsTricks's formatter for AbstractCurve's (i.e. use of \\pscustom not always necessary)
	- bug fix: BSH macros.
30/10/2003 :	
	- added customizer panel for user-editable kbd shortcuts (Edit->Preferences)
28/10/2003 : 	
	- refactored PropertyChangeEvent dispatching from EditorKit and PECanvas
26/10/2003 :	
	- improved painting scheme for polygon dots.
25/10/2003 :	
	- fixed bug in DefaultSelectionHandler : scale (i.e. through setPoint()) did not work
	properly when "mirroring" a selection. 
23/10/2003 :	
	- bug fix: formatting of arcs in the PsTricks format
	- bug fix: JPIC-XML fallback mechanism
	- bug fix: Pstricks not parsed because was missing in default grammar
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[1_4_pre1]
27/09/2003 :    
	- released 1.4-pre1
25/09/2003 :    
	- added Element.rotate() method, and jpicedt.graphic.toolkit.RotateTool.
        - added TEXT_ROTATION attribute to be used with PicText.
24/09/2003 :    
	- For clarity, split EditorKit.SelectionHandler off from EditorKit, now DefaultSelectionHandler lives on its own.
        - Added a delegate mechanism for highlighter painting through a separate HighlighterFactory.
        This should fairly reduce the burden of subclassing DefaultViewFactory.
17/09/2003 :    
	- Added support for rotated ellipses to LaTeXFormatter.
12/09/2003 :    
	- [VG] updated on-line help (PicMultiCurve + PicSmoothPolygon)
        - [VG] PicCircleFrom3Pts now compiles fine again.
        - Added public interface PointIndexIterator and a default implementation, since
        these iterators are now equally used to retrieve anchor-points indices as well
        as to fetch a list of "visible" control-points in DefaultViewFactory.
        This adds a good deal of flexibility to the latter where subclassing View's is concerned.
        - PicParallelogram : added SQUARE constraint. Code is still underway. Only P_TR works so far.
08/09/2003 :    
	- PicEllipse : corrected bug related to setPoint(P_ANGLE_XXX)
07/09/2003 :    
	- EditorKit.SelectionHandler: synchronization
        between the handler content and the drawing is now 100% ok.
        Modifying the content of the Drawing through the Drawing API
        now doesn't raise NullPointerException anymore (e.g. BSH macros)
        - PicAttributeSet: added getAllowedValueClass() to 
        PicAttributeName to allow type-checking of attribute value
        at run-time (the best we can do)
        - EditorKit : edit-points mode is now working flawlessly.
        - DefaultViewFactory : added factory method createStrokeForHighlighter()
        so that we may now straightforwardly change the appearance of
        highlighters from a single place (this may be e.g. user-editable in the future).
        - improved jpicedt.test.TestCanvas test class by embedding it
        with a BSH console. This should make test more easy to carry out.
26/08/2003 :
	- added PicParallelogram and PicEllipseFromParallelo ; 
        - hence removed PicRectangle, PicEllipse and PicPolygon which were made redundant.
        - refactored code in jpicedt.graphic.model (modelling geometry)
        - enhanced PicPoint class by adding numerous geometry related algorithms
        - created new PicVector class working hand-in-hand with PicPoint
        - added EditPointConstraint, aka geometric constraints which can be imposed to setPoint() methods.
	- added edit-point mousetool dedicated to bezier curves.
        - added JPIC-XML language as jPicEdt's "native" format ; syntax somewhat mimics that of SVG.
        Grammar not stabilized yet (no DtD yet).
	
21/01/2002 :
	- added highLighter's painting during a mouse-transform
	- added PicMultiCurve (multi Bezier) and PicSmoothPoly (smooth polygon)

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[1_3_2]
12/08/2002 :
	- created installer
	- fixed some GUI bugs related to threaded actions
        - worked out CR-LF problems with formatters
        - improved Ant's build.xml
	- changed user's preference file to user's preference directory
	- added Fragments menu
05/08/2002 :
   	- PsTricks : added \newpsobject, \psdots, \qdisk, made syntax rule closer to PsTricks grammar
	  where it was too tolerant. 
	- added "dot" attribute to polygons.
	- \makebox's (and related) arguments can now span more than one line.
	- LaTeX picture environment : enlarged the set of arguments \put can handle (beside LR-argument)
	  Useful mainly when loading files formatted by hand, or by another software.
	- added macros through support for BeanShell ; added many static methods in class JPicEdt
	  to ease macro development.
	- Parser has been refactored for efficiency ; added support for RegExp ; branches
	  can be now added to the parser tree from a BeanShell macro for user-made parsers...
 	- changed splash screen
	- updated on-line help.
	- took vacation.
21/07/2002 :
   	- fixed arrow size mismatch in PsTricks mode ; fixed repaint bug when attributes were changed
        from the Attribute Editor ; improved Attribute Editor updating-scheme when a new 
	element gets selected, or a new board is opened ; improved handling of mouse-hits for text
	elements by cropping the hit-sensitive area to the text bound, whatever the frame box.
29/05/2002 :
   	- fixed bug with pstricks parsing of text alignment.
14/05/2002 :	
	- fixed bug with AttributeEditor (predefined colours panel disappeared now and often for obscure reasons)
	- fixed bug with epic/eepic parsing of text alignment, which
	  resulted in text objects being displayed at y=0
	- fixed bug with incorrect parsing of \makebox commands
	  (esp. when no box size was given)
07/05/2002 :
   	- fixed some bugs with external commands ; added MikTeX scripts.
15/04/2002 :	
	- added floating tool-bars as a replacement of "per-board" toolbars, 
	  which made memory consumption very high.
	- fixed bug with undo/redo for attributes editing. Now, compound
	  attributes edits are ended by a deselection.
	- added experimental support for ModalInternalFrame.
14/04/2002 :
	- added RenderingHints (anti-aliasing,...) to PECanvas. New bug : turning anti-aliasing 
	  on make texture rendering (i.e. cross-hatches) look somewhat weird now
	  and often. Is it Java ? Any clue welcomed...
	- fixed bug with MoveTool and ScaleTool not registering undoable events.
	- fixed bug with i18n'ing of undoable PEAction's and of Parser messages
	- added Arrows to PicEllipse formatters in format.latex.*, format.eepic.*, and LaTeXParser
	- added manual editing of Bounding Box (usefull when text boxes lie on a picture edge)
	- fixed bug with DOTTED line style for LaTeXViewFactory ; 
	  now matches what the LaTeX format can really handle (i.e. DOTTED line-style is 
	  NOT supported natively !). If you really want to use dotted line-style, you may want
	  to consider using PsTricks instead.
	
13/04/2002 :
	- fixed bug with "Cut" action (didn't copy to clipboard)
	- fixed bug with polygon formatting in LaTeX mode, and unitlength parsing ("mm" string)
	- fixed bug with language not being initialized in Preferences
	- fixed bug with Look'n Feel not being loaded properly on startup.
	- fixed bug with MaxUndoableSteps not being stored in preferences.
	- fixed bug with Font selection not being reflected on the drawing
	
05/03/2002 :	- added new MouseTool's : "move" and "resize" (these are
	  add-ons to the MouseTransform's of the same name, i.e. can be used as 
	  stand-alone MouseTool's w/o relying on SelectionTool)
	- all properties dialog boxes are now subclasses or
	  AbstractCustomizer ; a CustomizerDialog has been implemented, which know how to
	  add AbstractCustomizer's.

26/02/2002 :
	- completed tree structure for Drawing, Element and View's ;
	  optimized calls to repaint ;
	- CursorFactory now caches custom cursors;
	- PicEllipse now inherits from PicRectangle; added two
	  end-points for editing angles.
	- MouseTransform's for SelectionTool are now created by a MouseTransformFactory, 
	  using a HitInfo returned by the hitTest method located in the View associated with the
	  clicked Element ; can be easily subclassed by plug-ins
	  designer to add their own editing-tools.
	- added new MouseTransform's : add/remove point for polygons,
	  move endpoints from center, InvalidTransform with custom cursor. Added
	  "setPointFromCenter" to PicRectangle and subclasses.
	- changed DrawPointIterableTool : EditorKit now uses a DrawToolFactory
	  which produces MouseTool's specific for each class of Element to be drawn, 
	  Each tool specifies what end-points we must set at each mouse-pressed, and in which
	  order. Plug-in designers can easily subclass this factory to
	  add their own graphic elements and related drawing tools.
		
10/02/2002 :
	- added ViewFactory + View + modified PicObject to implement a tree structure.
        Changed name "PicObject" to "Element".
09/02/2002 :
	- fixed bug with Grid lines not being repainted correctly
	- TextEditable is now ok -> using g.scale(1,-1) when painting text avoids using tricky tricks to
	circumvent the pb of text being mirrored.
08/02/2002 :
	- implemented model-coordinate system through an AffineTransform in
	PECanvas's paintComponent method ; now, PicObject's are stored in
	"natural" coordinates (aka LaTeX or PostScript coordinates).
	Besides, PEMouseListener's may now directly access mouse coordinates in
	the model-coordinates system through PEMouseEvent.getPicPoint().
05/02/2002 :
	- Package reorganisation ; separate the main tree into
	  jpicedt.ui (the application itself) and jpicedt.graphic (the
	  library)
	- Model/control/view architecture is now ok : created three packages :
	  jpicedt.graphic.view, jpicedt.graphic.model and
	  jpicedt.graphic.toolkit. PECanvas delegates most of the
	  editing behaviour to a pluggable EditorKit. EditorKit's know
	  how to register and unregister MouseTool's, and backs reference
	  to them in a HashTable ; this makes it easy for plug-ins
	  designer to add their own MouseTool's.
	- Multi-document-interface is now managed by a concrete implementation of
	  a MDIManager interface (either using JInternalFrame's or
	  JFrame's).
	- Created a PEAction implementation of Swing's AbstractAction,
	  which knows, using an ActionDispatcher, upon which target (PECanvas) it must act.
06/01/2002 :
	- package jpicedt.graphic finally compiles ok. Pb with jpicedt.ui
07/12/2001 :
	- fixed bug with frame's size in DlgBoxPreferences on some JVM implementation (pack() not working)

29/11/2001 :
	- fixed bug with ListenerThread not getting properly initialized in SystemOutUtilities
	- fixed bug @ PicRectangle.paint in LaTeX mode : forgot to call g.draw(etc..)
	- improved PicLine paint method by addind the "LINE_STYLE=DOTTED" case
	- added paint-related methods in PicObject that factors common behavior depending on current formater mode
	- improved PsTricks formater by adding "linestyle=dotted"
01/12/2001 :
	- made some I/O methods thread-safe (those relying on background threads for time consuming tasks) 
	=> can now be called from outside AWTEventDispatchThread :
	- jpicedt.gui.internal.PECanvas.read
	- jpicedt.io.parser.LaTeXParser.parse
	- jpicedt.io.SystemOutUtilities.SystemOutFoFrame.<init>
	- added a DebugRepaintManager in jpicedt.util.gui to help debugging Swing repaint mechanism
	      
02/12/2001 :
	- fixed (long-awaited !) bug with PEScrollPane size update during a zoom operation (I got muddled up over
	those multiple calls to repaint() and revalidate(), whereas ONE was enough, but at the RIGHT place !!!)
	- fixed parser bug in io.parser.picedt.DashStatement (forgot setAttribute(LINE_STYLE,DASHED))
03/12/2001 :
	- reorganized packages : deleted sub-packages under jpicedt.util, moved to jpicedt.gui ;
	moved jpicedt.gui.internal and jpicedt.gui.tool to jpicedt.graphic and sub-packages
04/12/2001 :
	- added Arrows to PicPolygon.paint and to PicPolygonFormater
05/12/2001 :
	- added arrows to io.parser.picedt.PicPolygonExpression
	- fixed bug with dash parameter not being formated correctly with rectangles
	- added isToBack and isToFront in Drawing ; now EditDispositionAction in PECanvasPopupMenu 
	can be enabled/disabled depending on the target PicObject disposition.
	- added convertToCubic and convertToQuad action's in jpicedt.graphic.action.
06/11/2001 :
	- adapted PicBezier from quad to cubic spline
09/11/2001 :
	- adapted PicBezierFormater, and related parser expressions
11/11/2001 :
	- lumped all DrawXXXXTool's together in jpicedt.gui.tool package
	- added a PicPointIterable class under PicObject for objects that support iteration over their control points
	now there's one DrawTool that can handle a variety of PicObject's (instead of nearly one for each PicObject before)
13/11/2001 :
	- corrected bug with PicBezier parser (was absent from LateXParser's grammar)
	- added parsing and formating of PsTricks's user defined colours
15/11/2001 :
	- added color chooser in properties panel, to handle user's defined colours
19/09/2001 :
	- fixed : spline selection bug, linethickness parsing, makebox alignment parsing, polygon's "closed" attribute parsing 
16/10/2001 :
	- modified Parser structure and added some packages for PsTricks support
23/10/2001 :
	- added 90% of PsTricks support (colours, arrows, dash...)

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[previous relases]
See 'History' topic on www.jpicedt.org website for features added prior to 1.3.2

See also

Features added prior to 2002

[1.3.2]
12/08/2002

- PsTrick support
- BSH macros
- Fragments
- Floating toolbars
- Installer utility.
- And more...

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[1.3.1-b]
06/02/2001

- corrected i18n BUG (how absent-minded of me! i18n generic english-language file was purely missing, hence users with a OS's default-locale different from _en, _fr or _es experienced a violent failure on startup.;-(( 
- Apart from that, no changes on source.

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[1.3.1-a]
25/01/2001

- Added spanish translation of i18n resource file

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[1.3.1-rc]
06/11/2000

- Corrected minor bugs : 
o internal frame's close-button now works with JDK1.3 ! 
o added a "close file" menu-item. 
o arrow attributes are now parsed properly
o better arrow painting
o on start-up, an empty file isn't automatically created

- GUI
o Added new functions to the popup-menu : convert polygon to lines, rectangle to lines, rectangle to polygon
o Insert a point into current polygon

- Internal code
o "setSelected" method has now a "package" access (see code documentation)
o Lumped jpicedt.gui.mousetool and jpicedt.gui.keyboardtool together into a new jpicedt.gui.tool package.

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[1.3.1-beta1]
27/10/2000

- Added new TextEditor tool which allows user to enter text directly onto the drawing. 
- Changed Properties-DialogBox appearance.

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[1.3-rc]
06/10/2000

- GUI 
o Added a toolbar for common properties (thickness, dash, color,...) 
o Added support for polygons (possibly filled)

- Parser/formater 
o Added epic/eepic commands parsing; now loading a file generated from GnuPlot, Octave or xfig is allowed. 
o Tried to (partially) correct this tricky eepic bug concerning misbehaved \allinethickness commands (or do I misinterpret the documentation?), by using \Thicklines (and its variants) instead.

- Misc 
o Added a resource monitor (thx SUN!) 
o Help file is up-to-date!

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[1.3-beta2]
27/08/2000

- (and now again) Compatibility is restricted to Java2. I cleared up nearly 90% of the code, with MusicTeX support in view... Now I DO think that maintaining this code might be far easier in the future.
o Package hierarchy was completely reorganized: jpicedt.gui, jpicedt.graphic, jpicedt.io, jpicedt.util were added to the hierarchy. 
o Use of Singleton for classes that only support a single instanciation 
o Intensive use of delegation mecanism (DrawingListener's...) 
o Implementation of loose-coupled classes, allowing for a better reusing of existing code. 
o Changed every ActionListener to Action 
o LaTeX and eepic formaters are now totally independent classes.

- I/O 
o Parser was completely redesigned, using regular expressions 
o Standard error stream redirection (depending on -redir arg. on the command line). 
o Pictures can be preloaded by appending their file names to the java command line 
o Preference file name now depends on the OS being used: .jpicedt (Unix), jpicedt.ini (Win9x), jpicedtPreferences (MacOS), and is located in user.home directory.

- GUI 
o Toolbars complete redesign 
o Implemented flip and rescale transformation (for groups) 
o Front/Back support. 
o Added the possibility to edit object points separetely. 
o Menuitems and buttons are now disabled depending on the context. 
o Font size for text objects can be changed in the Preferences panel. 
o Added a Colorchooser in the Preferences panel. 
o Line thickness is now displayed properly (I needed JDK1.2 awt.geom package for that) 
o Designed an adequate zoom cursor 
o Added a progress bar at load time

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[1.2-rc]
15/04/2000

- (GPL licensed starting from this version)
- Due to a bug in epic/eepic packages (for which I'm absolutely NOT responsible :-)), I suppressed the possibility to change line thicknesses when using these packages. Might be fixed later.

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[1.2-beta]
05/03/2000

- A complete overhaul, in a way...

- GUI was largely re-designed: 
o Object properties are now displayed/edited from a status-bar panel 
o A right-click raises a context-sensitive popup-menu. 
o Added autoscroll on mouse-exit's. 
o Added new keyboard shortcuts. 
o Implemented groups, arcs and ellipses. 
o Added support for direct \put command insertion and epic/eepic packages.

- Misc 
o User can now run LaTeX or any other process from inside jPicEdt. 
o Changed preferences file name to picedtPrefs. 
o Translated help file in english. 
o Source code documentation a la javadoc

- Bugs correction: 
o Dragging an internal frame is much quicker now. 
o Added some parser generated error messages. 
o Corrected text misalignment. 
o Number of Undoable steps can be changed from the Preference panel.

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[1.1.3b]
20/12/1999

- Corrected i18n bugs (missing strings) 
- Corrected dialog-box display bugs under Linux/KDE.

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[1.1.2]
01/04/1999

- Added implementation of ellipses. Better rendering of Bezier curves.

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[1.1.3]
15/05/1999

- Corrected BUGs concerning mutable menus (recent files,...) and ellipses->LaTeX formating 
- Added Undo/Redo and dashing support. 
- Changed the way mouse clicks are handled. 
- Default unitlength is now 1mm (was 1cm).

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[1.1.1]
01/03/1999

- Corrected BUGs concerning dialog-boxes. 
- Implemented rectangle filling and line thickness.

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[1.1]
15/02/1999

- OK, I heard you all ! Back to JDK1.1.x

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[1.0]
12/12/1998

- Compatibility is restricted to JDK1.2 only :-(((