Hi, I am thinking about implementing a complex multi-knobs slider UI component for my netbeans platform apps. I need knobs build from several bitmaps, which can be dragged and moved separatly and a scale with ticks and an arbitrary count of bitmaps overlayed on the slider to mark specific positions/events, which also should be movable.
Some years ago I have implemented a simple version of this with Swing and I learn that it is not easy to implement all the look-and-feel-stuff correctly. I also had problems with the scale and ticks. Now I have followed the interesting discussion about HTML versus Swing etc. Maybe it makes sense for me to give HTML for JAVA API http://bits.netbeans.org/html+java/1.5.1/index.html a try to implement a better version of my multi-knob slider based on html5/css/javascript? Can somebody help me to find some starting points? I know html well but I havnt implemented any ui component with web technologies. I was satisfied with Swing but I am curios to try something new. I havnt found any good html-example for what I want. Only the functionality of multi-knobs there are many examples e.g. https://github.com/FCOO/jquery-time-slider Maybe the first step cauld be to bring this bases on htmo for java api into my netbeans platform api. But I have no idea what all is needed to do this. Or do you think it will be easier to follow the good old Swing? best regards Oliver
