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1. SWING GUI ADVICE,PLEASE    coderanch.com

Hi Nitin, In my opinion, no. Having the textfields background being black is annoying because the user has no feedback on focus. Since the cursor is shown in black you should always have a light background and a dark foreground. Users are used to that color scheme and having something else will just cause immediate judgements that won't go in your ...

2. I need advice in swing    coderanch.com

Hi why you don't take an IDE like JBuilder. There you can design your layout very easy. Of course, you need a bit knowledge of Swing. If you don't have this, then you should start with the tutorial from sun. To come again to the JBuilder. This IDE provides the functionality, that you create your GUI with a null layout. There ...

3. Need Advice    coderanch.com

Hi; I am trying creating a swing application. Basically the client connects to a database and than is giving various options for customizing and creating reports with different views of the data. My first idea was to use the JTabbedPane. Each tab would be associated with a pane. The method that creates the pane would create its contents depending on whether ...

4. GUI advice needed    coderanch.com

Hi, My GUI requirement is as follows : a. On start, it draws 3 circles on screen (either thro drawoval or by loading a circle image). b. Draws lines between the circles. c. Now I should be able to drag and move any of the circles at a time around the screen and it creates new lines from that to the ...

5. GUI advice appreciated    coderanch.com

6. UXP Advice    coderanch.com

On a particular form I have two tables that are a parent-child relationship. The parent table contains Parameters which consist of the following columns: Name, Required, Description The child table contains Values for each Parameter and has the following columns: Value, Description So what happens is as you select a Parameter Row the Values table updates to show the values for ...

7. Advice Please    coderanch.com

Hi friends, I am new to awt/swing My boss give me one program here in a window i should have two tables and values to the tables should be taken from text file using stream. Since i am new to these things pls advice me the things i can use to develop the above so that i can concentrate and learn ...

8. Advice on how to implement this GUI ?    coderanch.com

Hello, My name is albert kam .. I hope you could give me pointers about these matters. I need gui components that is also available in these screenshots of partition magic 8. At screenshot 2, where there are 3 partitions. If i were to - right click one of the partition, and choose resize, - i can resize the partition from ...





10. Advice on refactoring    coderanch.com

in this refactoring (and perhaps due to my inexperience) my layouts end up with lots of nested panels Why do you feel this is bad? In my experience, having nested panels is easier to understand as well as maintain as compared to having one single container with lots of child components added directly. Relax. You are doing good. For buttons, except ...

11. Seeking advice for first project    coderanch.com

The world of Java offers so many options that my beginner-brain is overwhelmed. I'm hoping to get some advice from developers more experienced than I. I'm trying to build a rich-client application (my first) that will track information about pets in a veterinary clinic setting. The app will be connected to a database (initially, Apache Derby; later, SQL Server), and will ...

12. Advice building my GUI    coderanch.com

I am working on a project for an online class I made the mistake of taking this summer and I need to build a gui to show how the huffman code algorithm works. The algorithm part is easy, its not very complicated. However im unsure what the best way to draw the tree(forrest) at each step. It would have to start ...

13. Advice for a REPL GUI    java-forums.org

Hello, I'm struggling to figure out what the recommended way of making a "prompt" in a shell/REPL would be. To clarify, I'm making an "interpreter loop", think of the UNIX shell. I don't want the user to be able to edit the prompt, but I want to be able to update it throughout the users session. That seems to rule out ...

14. Need some advice regarding GUI development    forums.oracle.com

Hey all. New here and thought this would be the best place to greet and ask my first question. For the record I'm not a strong programmer and have decent java experience. I'm doing some research on a project I'm about to embark on for school and I'm going to be doing it in java of course. It's an application that ...