Swing has its faults but it is very well documented. The java docs are about as good as you can find, and there are lots of tutorials.
If you really hate Swing you might want to look at SWT. On 10/31/06, Jay Askren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At work, I'm using the Eclipse RCP, and unfortunately, not only is it a huge learning curve, but good up to date documentation is somewhat scarce. For a small app, it's much easier to just write it in Swing. In addition to the ones you mentioned, I believe Netbeans also has an RCP framework, though I haven't used it. On 10/31/06, Mitch Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm a low-level OS-type guy with a reasonable amount of Java knowledge. However, I'm a beginner at things like GUIs and Swing. I have an idea for a Java Application that I would like to develop. It will a standalone program that runs on a single machine and must have a reasonably good GUI. > > I've been teaching myself Swing, and all that stuff is very cool. But I find myself having to write too much stuff from scratch that I know has been done before. Plus my framework stuff doesn't look very nice! I need an Application Framework to hang my code on. > > I stayed up late last night (too late according to my wife!) searching the Web, and I found a few candidates: Aloe, JSR 296, JGoodies, Eclipse, XUI. There are also a whole host of other frameworks (too many!) that are targeted more at Web-type applications (AJAX, JLense, Radicore, etc.). I don't think I'm ready for those yet. But then I don't know, as I will want to learn Web App development eventually. > > Anyway, does anyone have experience with those that I mentioned or others that I don't know about yet? I want to be able to quickly and easily prototype my ideas. I'm looking for something that helps me with the following kinds of things: > > - Error/Exception handling > - Logging (of events and special conditions) > - Menus, buttons, controls > - Window management (changing fonts and styles) > - Look and Feel management (I want to try different L&Fs to see what I like) > - Tables of data, sortable in different ways, and editable > - Printing facilities for reports > - Multi-threading (kicking off a background task, and updating the GUI with progress) > - Copy/Paste > - Message boxes > - File access > - Properties > > The one thing I don't need is a database. My data is reasonably small, so I plan to just serialize the objects into a file and reload them into memory whenever the App starts up. That is actually the kind of code that I am pretty good at. It is the GUI stuff that gives me fits. > > I'm using Eclipse as my IDE, and I especially like the idea of actually using Eclipse as the framework itself (RCP). But that sounds like a huge learning curve and perhaps overkill, and I want to have something working soon in my spare time. > > Anyway, I suppose if I spent several weeks with each of the above technologies, I could eventually figure out which one meets my needs best. But I don't want to do that right now (lazy me!). So, I'm looking for advice from those who have more experience in this area. > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > > > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
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