RE: Create Graphical interface

Swing can be very powerful if used correctly; I personally prefer it to
may other GUI toolkits. Unfortunately, most people don't use it
correctly.

If you understand the MVC deign pattern (which Swing uses extensively),
and think of your GUIs as a collection of containers within containers,
Swing can make perfect sense, and can make some excellent interfaces.

Cheers



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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"

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.

What do you think about Swing?

Luis

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john e skrev den 07-02-2008 10:57:

If you want to use the X-Windows protocol directly from RPG apps then

take a look at http://www.export-ventures.com/rpggui.htm.

Interesting, but no - I just wanted to see if the JVM on the AS/400
included the complete X11 graphics library, and as the video shows it
does.

I have no desire to code plain X11, but if this means that an AS/400 JVM
can display directly to something without needing to create images to a
web application or similar, it is interesting for us. Just use Swing
and that is it :)