Old to new, basic question.

[AnalogAnomaly]

I haven't used Java in years, now after installing a copy of Microsoft's Visual J# 2005 and importing some old code to a project (written back in 1.4) I've come up with a number of errors and of course syntax appears to have changed over the years. I intend to go ahead and port it to the newer version of Java and could use some syntax referances. Additionally One warning comes up recurringly upon debug. "Switch statement contains no 'default'"

for example

public gameFrame(int server, int mode) {
		
		super(" game ("+windowcount+")");
		windowcount++;

		p = new gamePanel(this, "file:/"+System.getProperty("user.dir")+System.getProperty("file.separator"), false, server, null);

		Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();

		int tx = d.width/2-320;
		int ty = d.height/2-240;

		if (tx<0)
			tx=0;
		if (ty<0)
			ty=0;

		switch (mode) {
			case 0:
				w = new Window(this);
				w.add("Center", p);
				w.resize(640,480);

				w.move(tx,ty);
				move(tx,ty);

				w.show();
				p.start();
				show();
				
				break;
			case 1:
				add("Center",p);
				//resize(586,441);
				move(tx,ty);
				show();
				fullscreen=false;
				p.resize(640,480);
				pack();
				p.start();
		}
		setIconImage(p.GetImage("gameicon.gif"));

}
Do you now have to declare a default value for switch statements and if so what's the syntax for doing so?

[Hack]

Does this help?

[nspils]

I don't know that I would call using J# "using Java".

Was the message you received (no default for switch) an error or a warning? While it is good practice to include a default, and I can't imagine not doing so, I do not expect the compiler to refuse to compile a switch structure that does not include a default condition.

[mr1yh1]

J# is not an option to develop java applications, are you migrating into .NET ?

[Hack]

J# is not an option to develop java applications

Why not?

[mr1yh1]

- J# is not compiled into java byte-code but .NET's MSIL.
- J# does not implement whole java-2 class libraries,
there is not any guarantee (and any reason such a guarantee)
for completeness or compatibility,
since microsoft does not target any java virtual machine.

[Hack]

- J# is not compiled into java byte-code but .NET's MSIL.
- J# does not implement whole java-2 class libraries,
there is not any guarantee (and any reason such a guarantee)
for completeness or compatibility,
since microsoft does not target any java virtual machine.

Ah...Ok. Thanks.

Then what would you use J# for?

[Razee Marikar]

J# can be used when you want to develop Windows applications using Java language without the Java framework and without byte code. You can either get the end product as either as an exe or the .Net MSIL. It can be used instead of VB.Net or C#.Net basically, or to complement / supplement code written in these languages with Java. The only thing (I believe) that is common to Java and J# is the language syntax and some of the libraries.

[Hack]

Thanks for the explanation.