Re: Create Graphical interface

Luis Colorado skrev den 08-02-2008 16:45:

Thornbjorn,

I have near to zero experience building GUIs with Java, so I want to hear your opinion about what some people say: "Friends don't let friend do Swing"

Swing is actually not that bad, but there is a lot to learn, and it has previously been a bit difficult to create stuff that looks good. Thankfully this has improved with the "Matisse" editor in Netbeans - see a quick demo at http://www.netbeans.org/kb/41/flash-matisse.html

You will also need to get used to the idea of "Listeners" that get notified when something happens, as opposed to code you call yourself directly. The argument then contains the information you need to act upon.

Sun has their tutorial at

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/

which introduce all the concepts, so you can take a peek to see how bad it looks to you.

By the way, I read about a tool (I don't remember its name) to render Swing applications using javascript, so they can be displayed on the web... have you heard of that? Actually, I suspect that WebQuery uses that tool.

I have not seen a "render swing as web page" thing, but there is an experimental "render swt as firefox webpage" thing which seems to be to be put in Eclipse "later". The question is whether it is usable - that requires a proof-of-concept.

What do you think about Swing?

It is ok, but a bit hard to learn - you will love good tools. I have primarily done server side stuff the last two years so I cannot
say it better than that.