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Stop using the default frame icon in Java

April 14, 2006 at 1:27 pm · Filed under Java

Stop doing this:

One line of code fixes this:

frame.setIconImage(
new javax.swing.ImageIcon(
getClass().getResource("/ClassPath/icon.png")).getImage());

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Matisse and Netbeans 5

April 14, 2006 at 12:49 pm · Filed under Java

Go check this out right now:

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/matisse.html

I was able to use Matisse to easily create a much more professional looking form in Java than I have ever in the past. I do believe that with Matisse (and after more bugs are worked out) that Java’s Swing toolkit will finally become largely acceptable to people. The problem with the straight jacket of the old layout managers is that they provided a “oh, this was defininely made using the Border Layout” or Card layout or box layout. All of the layout managers made it nearly impossible to put a little OK CANCEL buttons on the bottom right of the screen. It can now be done using Matisse in 2 seconds, just like visual studio.

Right now there are bugs but the bugs will go away and it is stable enough to use. Be careful if you use this system on old forms that you want to convert to Matisse. Make a backup because the new layout helping system sometimes makes your controls just vanish if you do the wrong mouse movement. Again, these will all be fixed but for now I recommend that you use this to completely recreate a form from scratch.

Some screen shots from an application I wrote using Matisse Advantages over Visual Studio

The new Matisse system seems to be actually better than the system used in MS Visual Studio (the last time I used it). While the anchoring system is great in VS, the anchors in Matisse are generated automatically. Basically this results in spending more time in the layout mode and less time pushing and pulling anchors in the property sheet.

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Sun’s Java Tutorials Expanded and Revamped!

January 31, 2006 at 1:41 am · Filed under Java

It looks like Sun is starting to centralize and place a standard look and feel (updated too) to the Java tutorials. The content is much easier to navigate than it used to be. I have already found it more useful.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html

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Platform Look and Feel Quick Reference

January 18, 2006 at 1:51 pm · Filed under Java

Something I need to go back to often

System.setProperty("swing.defaultlaf",
"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.windows.WindowsLookAndFeel");
System.setProperty("swing.defaultlaf",
"javax.swing.plaf.metal.MetalLookAndFeel");
System.setProperty("swing.defaultlaf",
"com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel");

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Google Hosted Projects

January 10, 2006 at 12:37 pm · Filed under Java

Because of its dead simple interface and a free SVN server usage, I have decided to use Google Hosted Projects (rather than source forge) as the place I want to host my Bitspy Source open source library. This is an all Java project that has no releases yet. Here’s the link:

http://code.google.com/p/bitspysource/

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