Hello, I have no knowledge of Java/Swing, but based on your requirements I guess you need FlowBox[1].
Best, Gergely [1] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFlowBox.html On Mon, Sep 12, 2016, 16:35 Daniel. <danielhi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a library implementing some protocol. That library is > multithread and is responsible to delivery messages to remote nodes > and retrieve it's responses. I need to visualise the whole mess > running. > > To do this I wrote a simple application in Java/Swing where for each > remote node one thread is created. The thread will send a message and > wait for response in a closed loop. Each thread is represented at GUI > by a label on the screen. When it's idle the background of that label > becomes green, when is waiting for response it is yellow and if > timeouts it becomes red. All labels have the same information so that > they have exactly the same size. > > Beside the request/repsonse there is events that can arrive from the > nodes too. That events need to be replied as the messages. When an > event arrives it's showed up on screen as a new label. When it's reply > is acknowledge it's removed from the screen. > > In pratice there is a big container where the labels came and go and > change its background colors based on messages, replies and events > comming and going. > > I've been using FlowLayout as the "big container". The labels are > added and arrange horizontally by FlowLayout. When no room is avaible > at the current row, a new row is added. When the rows exceed the > window size a scrowbar appears. > > I'm looking for something silimar with GTK2 (I'll run in a embeeded > system that doesn't have GTK3). > > My questions are: > > 1) Is there some container with equivalent behavior to the Swing's > FlowLayout? If no I think I'll need to build one from hbox+vbox, what > would be the best aproach to it. > 2) How is the best way to change the background of a label? > 3) What is the better aproach when adding instantiating, adding, > showing, hiding removing and freeing widgets at runtime? What can get > wrong? > > References: > https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html#flow > > Best regards, > -- > "Do or do not. There is no try" > Yoda Master > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
