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Suppose you have a panel with a table, which I will call a pane. The table has a toolbar above it, including an edit button. Editing involves showing an editing dialog. It allows the user to edit the ...
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Problem: our application allows users to close a form window after certain changes without any confirmation, instead of pressing the Save button. This makes them complain they have to start afresh. We ...
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I’m still a Computer Science student, and recently I’ve had to develop a project using the MVC pattern, but without having learned in depth about how it actually works. And it’s not the first time I’...
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When it comes to exception handling, there are many guidelines and best practices on the web. On of them is to throw early, catch late, or even Don't Catch. So when facing an exception, the current ...
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Consider the following GUI screen (Java Swing) with a list of persons where the user can select a person and delete it. According to MVC, the view observes (observer pattern) the model and updates ...
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I aim to understand pull model MVC. I'm stuck at defining a model for a simple color-guessing game in Java Swing I chose to practice it. I borrowed the model's initial version from an example which ...
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I am learning OOP, concretely Java, by developing a real life business application for aimed for repair shops. I have followed MVC pattern design for GUI elements of my application. I was wondering do ...
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I am developing a Bank Management Project. Now I am stuck in a point. I want to create a login page where a user will submit his/her username and password then after clicks on the login button, a new ...
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I have programmed a Java Swing application. I have some bugs in my program and I want to discover where in the code these errors occurs. With normal code (Non-GUI related code) I apply debugging for ...
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I'm making a blackjack game, and I want to take my cards images and give each a value for the game. I'm not sure how to determine their value. Should I just do a big switch statement with all the ...
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I need people opinions on how to improve a code I've written. Let's assume we have an application cataloging movies (~3500 of them) and actors (~1000, but I need to double-check this). Both actors ...
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I made a small program using several MVC-patterns. So far I havnt got to much stuff to put in the model so I havnt got any model yet. My idea is to make one MVC pattern for each panel. And looping ...
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I dont know how to reduce the size of jar file. When we normally code in Java Swing the jar file is created, is there any way to reduce the size of jar file? I can't remove the images and other stuff ...
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I'm making a Book Manager App using Java Swing that allows me to do a variety of things such as opening a txt list of books, searching for books, adding/removing books. There are different classes ...
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I try to create small Java tools to help me at my work every now and then. Usually these do not have to be pretty and I find myself coding a single, sometimes massive, Java class. However, now my plan ...
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I currently have an program in Java that simulates railway movements. Essentially, trains arrive on platforms, pick up and drop off passengers, and then proceed, respecting signalling where possible. ...
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For the below sample GUI program using javax.swing, public class UnResponsiveUI extends JFrame{ private boolean stop = false; private JTextField tfCount; private int count = 1; ...
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As per the class hierarchy in java.awt.*, class Button & class Label is-a class Component, and Component is not a Container, which make sense to me. As per the redesign of class hierarchy in ...
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I'm pretty new in Java, but I've done plenty of research and I know what MVC is. However, to implement MVC in Java was a difficult task. I followed this tutorial, which helped me to realise that the ...
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For those unfamiliar with the SOLID principles you can start reading here: Wikipedia article. However, most of my understanding comes from: http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/publishedArticles.html ...
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I have a large list of intercommunicating components; so I decided to have one class create all of them and then subsequently delegate them to other classes to facilitate finer tweaking and wiring ...
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I have been trying to use classes that implement ActionListener to respond to user input. I'm consistently noticing that for an action listener to communicate the event to other objects, it has to ...
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I am building a pair of components that communicates in a one-way fashion: [ JButton ] --> data...process...process...out --> [ JTextField ] The JButton allows the user to select a file and the ...
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I have 3 classes: a JButton extension, FButton; a JTextField; and a JPanel extension, FPanel, that would contain one instance of both. The FButton is supposed to open a file, and make the file name ...
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In Java, the Swing library implements the Observer/Subscriber-Publisher design pattern to design the way the program responds to events on the GUI (button clicks, etc). The programmer registers ...
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Let's say I was working on a Swing application. Most of it is run on the EDT using SwingUtilities.invokeLater() inside the main method, because I heard (please correct me if I'm wrong) that that's ...
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I know nothing about gui programming. I try to learn. I have simple question... For example, I have small program. I have class that extends JFrame with main Window (MyWindowClass) and my "logic" ...
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I was hoping for some advice: I need to design a software solution for a medium-sized java / Swing application. The application will have about 200 use cases requiring complex data validation and ...
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I have developed a Swing application that controls execution of several scripts like jobs. I need to display the interim output of the jobs concurrently. I have followed MVC while writing the ...
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I have this Tic Tac Toe game and I thought of this really cool way to draw out the grid of 9 little boxes. I was thinking of putting buttons in each of those boxes. How should I give each button (9 ...
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I have a project written using Swing, and I want to make it more smoothly (like JavaFX is) by adding animation to some components(JButton, JScrollPane, JSplitPane) using javax.swing.Timer. UPD: That ...
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I'm developing desktop application in java/swing. I have a component that is registered as a subscriber to many panels and gets messages (my custom event) from them. That component is something like ...
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Java Swing GUI's don't look native by default (Except on Mac OS X for some reason). Swing uses it's own look and feel. You can get Swing to use the system look and feel by putting: javax.swing....
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I might be misunderstanding MVC, so forgive me if that is the case. This is my program structure (Java/Swing): I have a JTable (View) that is pointed to by a custom linked list (Model). When the user ...
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It seems to be easier to use and more feature rich than standard swing layouts. It looks like a do it all replacement for all standard layouts. If you are making simple code to just show the time in a ...
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I have a form that includes an area for putting in address information and a table that shows the addresses that have been added. I've separated out the ActionListener for the "add address" button on ...
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I am trying to understand how a radio button is created in a Dynamic field by reading from an XML using Netbeans 7.0. I know the radio button is created because of the XML being read from database, ...
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I have been trying for years to master Swing layout managers with no success. Every time I need to do something with Swing, it is like pulling nails to get the visual components to line up the way I ...
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I need to write a cross-platform GUI application to process (in multiple threads) and visualize fairly large quantities of data. Ideally the application should be relatively fast and look good. The ...
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I'm looking for process-relative information on open-source Swing projects: how the task was described how many developers were involved how much time the solution was taken etc. Are there any open ...
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I'm currently shipping a desktop Java application. It is a plain old Java 5 Java / Swing app and so far everything worked nicely. Java 5 was targetted because some users were on OS X version / ...
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I have a 4 years old project which is written in Swing + SwingX. Currently, it is still alive and still kicking. However, as more GUI related feature requests coming in (For instance, a sortable tree ...
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I have a Swing application with a custom TreeModel that can refer to domain instances. I'm wondering what changes I could make if I consider moving to a web interface later on. Would a pluggable model ...
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I searching for undestanding Docking Framework concept in web, but I don't understand its concept and benefit. I see exist several 'Docking Framework' in java such as Netbeans Platform or MyDoggy or ...
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I've allready created small desktop CRUD applications using Java/Swing. In hindsight I'm not quite sure if the overall design of these applications is good. I've also done some reading on MVC and ...
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Why is Swing preferred over AWT? Which Swing component could be used for playing a video on it?
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I'm trying to design the "main" classe(s) of a Rich Desktop Application based on NetBeans Platform 7. This application will consume HTTP services and, through a "push system" over TCP, will receive ...
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Is there a collection of commonly-agreed-upon design guidelines for separating the Model classes from the View/Controller classes in a Java Swing app? I'm not so concerned that the View/Controller ...
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I'm very tempted to use it purely because of its neat Binding APIs, and now that you're able to use it in conjunction with Swing it feels like a natural progression. The only thing that I can seem ...
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Today a professor of mine commented that he found it odd that while SWT's philosophy is one of making your own controls by composition, Swing seems to favour inheritance. I have almost no contact ...
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