Swing

Jan 17, 2021 GUI Swing Kotlin

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: Swing

This is the 2nd post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series. In the first post of this series, we went through the rise and fall of some of the desktop frameworks, mainly Java ones. This post and the following will each focus on a single JVM framework. To compare between them, a baseline is in order. Thus, we will develop the same application using different frameworks.

Jan 3, 2021 GUI Swing JavaFX Flex SWT Java Web Start

The state of JVM desktop frameworks: introduction

This is the 1st post in the The state of JVM desktop frameworks focus series. I’m interested in GUI applications since I’ve starting coding. Building a back-end app that manages teraflops of operations is an impressive engineering feat. But the feedback cycle when developing a desktop app is much shorter. That makes it, at least for me, much more motivating. This is even truer for side-projects.

Jan 8, 2012 Swing

Properly closing Swing windows

There are many subjects one has to know when working with Swing and one of them is window closing. A beginner pass through some steps (and yes, I consider myself a beginner in Swing) and here are those I experienced myself. Hiding is default In the first step, you realize that by clicking the cross in the title bar, the window only disappears. It’s not disposed of, and if it’s your main application’s window, that’s bad because it means you’ve lost any handle on t

Jun 27, 2010 Swing

Flamingo tutorial

In this article, I will provide you with the documentation to easily use the Flamingo framework and more precisely, its ribbon widget. Never say that Microsoft never innovates: in Office, it introduced an interesting concept, the ribbon band. The ribbon band is a toolbar of sort. But whereas toolbars are fixed, ribbons layout can change according to the width they display. If you have such an application, just play with it for a few seconds and you will see the magic happens

Jun 21, 2010 CDI Swing

Lessons learned from CDI in Swing

Sinced I dived into CDI, I explored classical Java EE uses. Then, I used CDI into a pet project of mine to see how it could be used in Swing applications. This article sums up what lessons I learned from itthis far. This article assumes you have some familiarity with CDI; if not, please read my previous articles on CDI (CDI an overview part 1 and part 2) or read the documentation. In my last attempts at Swing (I’m more of a web developer), I figured it could be nice to config