I am new to Java and I am working on a project where depending on number of files in a directory,
buttons will be created respectively. Each button will have a customized right click context menu.
How can I achieve this or is this feasible?
I just want to know the approach to do this.
The approach that you may try:
While you iterate your directory/file list (or other process that will determine the button creation), you can generate (create an instance of) a new button (JButton), I assume you know how to use new, and put it on your form / panel.
However, most of the time, layout would become an annoying issue here.
Thus, you may try to use MigLayout to handle this.
It will help you a lot in putting your stuffs in a tidy and convenient way.
Try this approach and when you have a specific coding-part question, you can try to search the existing solution in SO (StackOverflow) or if it doesn't exist, you can ask that specific code-related question.
Hope it helps.
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My idea is to create a kind of growing form. Now the question is: What is the best way to do this? I haven't found a library, yet. On the picture below, you can see how I thought it to be. It should go to the next step after each input and an EditText field should appear. Any advice on existing libraries or tips on which UI component should be used to realized would be appreciated. Thanks for the help!
you have plenty approach but the one i prefer to use:
make your list, then for each index assign its next EditText. by default make your all EditTexts (except first one) disabled. then add a listener each index to observe its text. as soon as it was filled tell that listener to enable its next EditText.
maybe its not so efficient but its simple and makes code more readable. and also you can extend that easily if you just implement two first indexes because the rest is just the same.
When using window builder pro is it necessary to use a container for each time you wish to add a list etc? e.g. do you need to add a container to put the list into?
I'm not sure about pro version or not or if I'm understanding your question correctly or not. But if your talking about lists in windowsbuilder, you don't need to place them in a particular container besides of course the main frame your working on. You need at the very least a frame though.
EDIT: But if you want your gui to be flexible/resizable you might wanna think about using layouts to make it resize in a reasonable way. If your making a fixed size program then it doesn't matter much I guess.
I am doing a simple GUI painting box program.
However, I have a problem with adding 2 similar separated groups to be corresponding in the same way.
I mean when I click the JRadioButtonMenuItem Line, then the JRadioButton Line below also has to be selected too. What should I do?
Do you need to see my code?, please let me know
Thank you so much.
P/s: it says I need 10 reputation to post image
Share the model between the two radio buttons:
JRadioButton radioButton = new JRadioButton("Line");
JRadioButtonMenuItem radioMenuItem = new JRadioButtonMenuItem("Line");
radioMenuItem.setModel( radioButton.getModel() );
Actually, you should share the Action as well between the two components. Read the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Actions for more information and examples.
The exact solution depends a lot on how your code is structured right now. I bet that the standard library has some functionality to accomplish what you want to do, but if you want to go ahead and implement it then you might as well (minimal time input and you learn something).
The most direct solution that comes to my mind is to encapsulate selecting a button in a method that will manipulate all sets of corresponding buttons. I am going to assume that you are using action listeners for the buttons right now, if not you could adapt the idea. In the action listener, you can detect the mouse click and perform some work as necessary. That work should include updating the other buttons appropriately too. You could even create a method that both action listeners call and updates all necessary sets of buttons.
It is also possible to use the same action listener on both sets of the buttons, but you'll need to know which selection the user wants to be active (likely an easy task).
My Java is pretty rusty, so I am not including any example code, but if anything is unclear or you think an example would help I can do so.
Hope at least something here helps you. Good luck!
I need to make an expandable list using java swing. I will attempt to demonstrate:
Unexpanded:
>[Expand me!]
>[And me!]
Expanded:
|[Expand me!]
>[Expand us too!]
>[Expand us too!]
>[Expand us too!]
>[And me!]
So, when you click on the "Expand me" portion of the list, another lists will drop down, possibly containing more expandable lists. If you were to click on it again, it's "sub-lists" would then retract. Pretty basic. And, as you can see, I am not looking for JComboBox, and I do not think JList can do this. If someone were to point me in the right direction, or give some programming examples, I would be grateful.
Thanks,
MirroredFate
How about using a JTree.
A control that displays a set of hierarchical data as an outline.
You can try using a JTable and put a button in the first column. When the button is clicked you add more data in the rows in between.
update
Something like this:
Or this
I think the first uses a JTree but that the idea.
BTW these two belong to JIDE Soft, check if it is feasible for you to buy a license:
http://www.jidesoft.com/products/grids.htm
Is not trivial to roll you own but is not impossible either.
check for TreeTable or one example or Outline, but with notice, that on official Java (SnOracle) pages any progress died ...,
I will explain my question clearly.
I need to zoom in/zoom out the world map.
When I click on the particular country in map, control should redirected to new page with respective the country.
I dont have any idea about this in java. Please explain the steps to acheive the above task.
As the question is quite general, here is a general answer: Zooming often means, that you want to display a certain percentage of somethin, and not the whole, where your size of the displayed will not change.
But in your case it seems more like a "find a mouse click in a polygon" thing. So you have to add a selection/click listener to whatever widgets you use (Swt? swing? ....?) where you change what your program renders.
It sounds like you may be trying to reinvent the wheel. Google etc have already solved this problem rather well. It might be better to incorporate an existing solution into your application. Have a look at GoogleEarth inside Java Swing.