Re: [OFF TOPIC] Java desktop applications

2009-06-11 Thread Jon Laidler
Netbeans v6.5 Windows and Linux version is bundled with a GUI builder, earlier version of Netbeans used Matisse. John Armstrong-3 wrote: I do a lot of swing using matisse for visual layout and it works fantastic. I then use install4j and create os native looking apps and installers with

Re: users, please give us your opinion: what is your take on generics with Wicket

2008-06-12 Thread Jon Laidler
Eelco Hillenius wrote: Hi all, We have had several threads in this and the dev list, and some discussions in the public on how to incorporate generics in Wicket. I'd like to use this thread to gather the opinions of as many regular Wicket users as we can. Please help us get an

Re: remember last visited page

2008-02-28 Thread Jon Laidler
Assuming you keep the user credentials (user ID, password etc) in a persistent layer - database table flat file etc, you could simply add a field to store the Java class name of the page when the user loads it. Then if the session ends the last page can be referenced from the field after the user

Re: Is it possible to use wicket without having any html page?

2008-01-07 Thread Jon Laidler
+1. If Echo (never used myself) fits use it. You could also use Java servlets to create dynamic HTML from the server. Personally, this is a backward trend and a pain to manage - all HTML modifications made in the servlet, harder for web designers to do their creative stuff etc. The beauty of

Re: Happy new year list!

2008-01-01 Thread Jon Laidler
Looking forward to 2008 with the release of 1.4 and, of course, 'Wicket In Action'. I don't know where you guys find the time! Your work is very much appreciated. Once again, thanks for Wicket and Happy New Year. Jörgen Persson wrote: Regards, Jörgen

Re: Dynamically changing CSS

2007-10-30 Thread Jon Laidler
You could use CSS. Set the class for the table row to be highlighted (eg ..tr class=trcolor), add a style to the page to set the color of the table row class (eg .trcolor {color: red} ). Then get wicket to change the style color through CSS when the checkbox is selected. Cristi Manole wrote:

Re: How to render character entities such as nbsp

2007-09-12 Thread Jon Laidler
You could use CSS positioning. Place an absolute positioned div on the page, put the table in it positioned relative to the div, place the AjaxPagingNavigator in a below the table positioned absolutely to the bottom of the div. The following example will place the navigator 300px from the

Re: First Day Disgust!

2007-09-09 Thread Jon Laidler
Totally agree. I like to understand what is going on so I created a 'sandbox' type project in Netbeans, manually referenced the wicket libraries, created the application and webpage class with related HTML, and the Web.xml. I was up and running in under an hour. The application runs on Tomcat