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1. Why is Java's GUI platform named "Swing?"    stackoverflow.com

Why is Java's GUI development platform named "Swing"? What does it mean?

2. Java findout if current platform supports windowing    stackoverflow.com

Is there way to find out if Java is running on a platform which supports windowing of any kind? I know that you could possibly figure it out by reading in ...

3. Netbeans Gui Module    forums.netbeans.org

I am creating a very small gui builder..for basically re-arranging my components on a form, I have done a prototype using Absolute layout ..with span and overlap detection in place. I ...

4. Strange GUI Builder behavior    forums.netbeans.org

Hi, Instead of displaying the actual text value of a JLabel, the GUI Builder displays the key found in the resource bundle. So, in the "Design" view as well as in ...

5. [platform-dev] How to know if in GUI mode?    forums.netbeans.org

Hi all, I need to know if a NetBeans Platform application is running in GUI mode or not. I'd like to know when it's safe to check for this and what ...

6. Hints for GUI    forums.netbeans.org

7. Running platform app with no GUI    forums.netbeans.org

We are creating a stand alone netbeans platform application with two versions. One version is a full GUI version and the other will run as a service with no GUI. Can ...

8. running with no gui    forums.netbeans.org

i have a project that runs on 3 machines, on 2 of the machines it needs the full blown gui, the third machine is running as a database/server and should not ...

9. Extend GUI Builder    forums.netbeans.org

Hi, I'm building a NB platform application. I'd like to reuse GUI Builder from NetBeans in this way : - keep only the design view (remove the source view) or reuse the editor design view in my own editor top component, - add some custom items to the palette and remove others existing. Is that possible ? Do you know some ...





10. How to create a NB Platform app without the NB GUI?    forums.netbeans.org

Hello everybody! I'm was using Delphi as my main IDE and language for many years. A few months ago, i decided to do my future developments in java. Right now, i'm developing an application for the childrens home that i'm employed in. I'd like to migrate my application that's a standard swing app, created with netbeans, to the netbeans platform as ...

11. Extending an extended GUI element. (JAVA + NetBeans)    forums.netbeans.org

View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Helral Joined: 08 Aug 2011 Posts: 2 Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:48 am Post subject: Extending an extended GUI element. (JAVA + NetBeans) I'm using: IDE: NetBeans 7.0.1 Language: Java I have extended a JPanel with the GUI environment of NetBeans, this worked successful. But now ...

12. Editing NB_Platform GUI elements    forums.netbeans.org

Hi there, When I set up a basic Netbeans RCP app, I was able to edit particular GUI elements to a point. I got stuck and can't figure out how to remove a couple of buttons. I could not find any tutorials on this. When the app starts I go to the top menu bar and click on : Tools-->Options. When ...

13. more customize netBeans RCP GUI    forums.netbeans.org

Hi there, I hope you can help me out once more Jonathan. This time I wish to customize the largeIcon that says Miscellaneous. See the image below. I have learned how to replace the Splash Screen Image, but don't know how to customize any of the other Icons/images. Also once one can customize this, how can one duplicate this Panel/Frame, and ...

14. Platform dependency of AWT    coderanch.com

15. Why does the GUI created using Swing look different on different platforms?    coderanch.com

Hi Judy, IMOP it could be that you are not specifying a font. JVM only specifies that font types be available and not that all sizes be the same on all platforms (e.g. 12 on Unix <> 12 on PC). As stated by John, you usually use a layout manager to make sure your objects don't move. From your explanation, I ...

16. is the Swing-GUI really platform independent?    coderanch.com

in my current project, I noticed some strange behaviour of the GUIs LookAndFeel: on one Computer, buttons of the app have yellow borders on MouseEvents, on the other not. On one I can't see the colours of the buttons, that I wrote... after checking possible reasons and as far as I can see, it depends on the J2SE - Version and ...





17. platform dependence bug    coderanch.com

My suspicion is that you're doing something along the lines of calling "paint(getGraphics())", rather than calling repaint() and letting the JVM worry about screen painting. If you do this, then there's the risk that the component being painting won't have been physically rendered yet, and getGraphics() can return null. The actual behavior is going to be timing-dependent, so using a debugger ...

18. Platform independence    coderanch.com

I am working on a Swing based GUI and developing a form with some text fields. (i)When i enter some value in any of the fields a listener for value change is fired. This is working absolutely fine in Windows platform. But when the same code is executed in UNIX environment(Sun Solaris), the listener is not fired for some of the ...

19. Netbeans Platform ClassLoader problem    coderanch.com

20. swing platform independent?    coderanch.com

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21. Griffon and Netbeans Platform    coderanch.com

Thanks a lot for sharing with us, Andres and Danno. Griffon is really interresting and very promising. For some projects about to begin, I was planning to use the Netbeans Platform. Now I am wondering whether combining Netbeans Platform + Griffon is possible, and if so, how? Or do you advise against this kind of adventure? Cheers, Thierry

22. Cross Platform GUI problems    forums.oracle.com