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Re: how do you block the GUI repaints?

From	Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: how do you block the GUI repaints?
Date	2018-05-23 16:30 +0200
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2018-05-23 16:26, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 9:59:58 AM UTC-4, Daniele Futtorovic wrote:
>> PDF is a binary file, not a text file. Everything I mentioned previously
>> was under the assumption that you were working with text files. If you
>> want to display a PDF, you'll likely be better off using a third-party
>> library (not sure those even exist for Java, but they may).
>>
>> -- 
>> DF.
> 
> I am normally just looking at plain text files, but I did want to be able to view any file.  Other text editors handle binary.
> If I view a binary file in Notepad++ it shows things like NUL STX SI EOT SUB DLE SO US SOH.  I don't know what these mean but it shows something, not squares.
> PsPad has a special template now for PDF so it only shows the text content, not any of those unprintable characters.  If I view a true binary exe file with it, it shows columns, with unprintable characters on the right as dots and hex values of all characters on the left.
> 

The "squares" appear because the font you're using does not have any
glyph for the codepoints that you're trying to show.

As for the rest... Good Luck!

-- 
DF.

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how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 10:59 -0700
  Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> - 2018-05-22 13:22 -0500
    Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 13:00 -0700
      Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-22 16:29 -0400
        Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 13:51 -0700
          Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2018-05-22 21:41 +0000
          Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-22 18:03 -0400
            Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Andreas Leitgeb <avl@logic.at> - 2018-05-22 22:22 +0000
              Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 07:55 -0700
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-23 11:06 -0400
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 08:19 -0700
  Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2018-05-22 14:43 -0400
    Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 13:20 -0700
      Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-22 22:47 +0200
        Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 13:58 -0700
          Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-23 04:30 +0200
            Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 05:54 -0700
              Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-23 15:58 +0200
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 07:26 -0700
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-23 16:30 +0200
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 07:48 -0700
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-23 18:46 +0200
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2018-05-23 10:51 -0700
                Re: how do you block the GUI repaints? Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte.net> - 2018-05-23 22:35 +0200

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