http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/api/index.html
All I ever wanted to do was change the color of some existing text. Had I known that it would mean pawing through this holy hell-hole of documentation, I would have never tried this class. C++ was easy to learn. Visual Basic was picked up without a problem. Even PERL was a snap, so I am sitting here, staring at my text editor, and I am only able to think of one thing.
No wonder Java died.
Compared to what you can do with any other combination of things, Java is slow, laborious, no longer platform independant, and ultimately best described as an idealistic flop. It shouldn't take 3 lines of code to put a button on the page, and it really shouldn't take a half hour of reading other people's code to understand how to make it work. Of course, once programmed, it only works part way. I have over 15 lines of code, just to change the background color and draw a new text label when you click a button. Somethins is wrong here. My head is now hurting, my brain throbbing, and as much as I love learning programming stuff, I remember now why I avoided Java in the past. Simply put, it sucks.
Amazingly enough, textpad does a better job than "real J".
Now, back to the code.
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