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Fixing deprecated Elements of Open Source SIMULA Project

 
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I downloaded the source code for the SIMULA project from "sourceforge.net" and noticed that when I compile the 35 Java files it consists of, all the files compile, but I get the message "Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API. / Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details. / Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations. / Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details." I decided a nice project for me would be to modify the code so that it doesn't generate these warning messages. To start, I decided to take care of the deprecated code problems, so I went to "simags-src-2B\src" and executed "javac -d ..\target -deprecation SIMULA.java". That gave me a whole bunch of warning messages, but it ended with: ".\PaintDialog.java:45: warning: [deprecation] handleEvent(Event) in Component has been deprecated / public boolean handleEvent(Event evt) {". It looks like the problem is that class {PaintDialog} extends class {Dialog} that extends class {Window} that extends class {Container} that extends class {Component}, and {Component} has a method {handleEvent()} that {PaintDialog} overrides, that is deprecated. The deprecation information for this method at "https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api" says: "Deprecated. As of JDK version 1.1 replaced by processEvent(AWTEvent)".

So my guess is that where "PaintDialog.java" overrides method {handleEvent()}, I need to take that out and override method {processEvent()} instead. But the code for overriding {handleEvent()} is like follows:

Class {Event} clearly has an {x} member variable, a {y} member variable, and a {metaDown()} member method, while class {AWTEvent} doesn't have any of those members. Is there some way to generate the equivalent of the {x} and {y} variables for an {AWTEvent} object, so that I can write a {processEvent()} method that does the equivalent thing? And similarly for {metaDown()}? I noticed that {AWTEvent} does have an {id} member variable; can I assume that I can do the same thing with it in {processEvent()} that the existing {handleEvent()} does with {evt.id}? If I can't do any of these things, then what can I do to fix the code so that it makes the SIMULA project run right without using deprecated methods?
 
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