I wanna create a simple application with Java. I designed the main template in my head but I have a kind of design problem.
I am using JMenuBar and JMenu. It works fine but it's location is not exactly what I want.
In ubuntu, I use Eclipse and it has menu in titlebar:
As you can see , menus are at top.(File,Edit,Source,etc..)
However, My application is not the same.
Here is my application.
JMenu is working fine but in title bar there is no menu.
What can I do to create this menus ?
Are there any component for it ?
Thank you.
Best Regards.
Ömer.
You may be interested by the Jayatana project
You're using the right components, but have a Look and Feel (L&F) problem. Take a look here:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html
however, I can't guarantee that changing the look and feel will make it look exactly as you want.
The general problem is that Swing abstracts away from the OS's GUI components. Eclipse is also Java, but SWT instead of Swing, so it doesn't have the problem. There may be third party libraries that integrate better with the native L&F - Maurice seems to have found one. Alternatively, you could switch to SWT entirely, but that might be a bit much just to get the right L&F.
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I'm linking a database to NetBeans now and I need to create a interface for this. But when I need to adjust the position of button, label is difficult. Is it possible that show a GUI design view that easy for me to adjust without use the JFrame component?
If I understood your question correctly, you're looking for a GUI builder for Swing.
Netbeans ships with the Matisse Swing GUI Builder which will help you build GUIs easily and quickly. Tutorials aren't uncommon (such as the official tutorial or some user created videos on YouTube).
Some folks are fine with this work flow (since it speeds up development quite a bit). Others want to use custom frameworks and have requirements to use specific layouts in which case I recommend reading about different layout managers.
Take your pick and happy development! :)
Instead of trying to design your entire application in the GUI editor, you may be able to adapt the approach shown here. This will let you focus on a single container at a time. Also, remember to backup your .form files; more here.
I developed a Java application in Netbeans, and I'm going to release it soon so I'm working on making it less ugly. Since I'm developing on a Mac, the GUI builder uses the Mac Look & Feel, which looks decent, but many of my users won't be using Macs. The default L&F is Nimbus, which looks fine except for the buttons, which have annoying borders that are not overridden by the manually setting the borders (you can see how the manual borders look in the image). With the manually set borders, the Nimbus L&F adds its own odd border inside the border I made, which just looks idiotic. Without the manually set borders, Nimbus's borders overlap in visually unappealing ways, and in order to avoid overlap I have to space the buttons really far apart, which I also don't like.
I tried using the other L&Fs available in Netbeans (Metal and something else), but they're just too ugly to stand.
Basically, I would like some advice on how to customize the way buttons look in this application. I don't want to write a button drawing function from scratch or design my own images. I just want a way to change the settings so things don't look stupid. I read in various places that the Substance L&F is good, but I can't find where to download it anywhere. If someone could link me to a download page for Substance or recommend another popular, simple and not stupid-looking L&F, I would greatly appreciate it.
Yeah pretty much all the L&Fs you'll find in Netbeans are worse than the default. The program will use the default Look & Feel of the operating system - so if it's being run on Windows it will have the "Windows-esce" buttons and fonts and on Mac will have the Mac style.
It all depends on what you're looking for. If you're application is meant to be professional and you don't mind it having different styles depending on the OS of the user then I'd leave it as default. It lends familiarity to your program which can truly make the user feel much more comfortable.
If you're after an indetical look for all users then, as you know, you just need to include the L&F with your program. I couldn't find a download for Substance but there are a few L&F's here - both commercial and free.
http://www.java2s.com/Product/Java/Swing/Look-And-Feel-LaF.htm
I am trying to create a screen like this one
Initially I was trying to port a console program to java. I have found things like jcurses and charva but there is almost no documentation on them and I really cant understand how to use them.
So I figured that I could create a console like screen that resembled the one above.
what library / framwork would I be best using. Should I use swing as it if fully portable?
what would be the best approach being that I need to be able to navigate and alter the 00 in the picture above?
Easily usable would be great but as long as it has good documentation that I can learn it from that would be fine.
(Answering as if you're looking for a hex editor.)
http://jhecomponent.sourceforge.net/
http://www.fifesoft.com/hexeditor/
http://hexedit-lib.sourceforge.net/
Played a bit with the fifesoft.com offering, kinda cool.
If you're not looking for a hex editor, can you be more specific? If you just want a cursor-addressable window you'll probably have to suck it up and figure out something like jcurses or libjcsi :)
If you prefer to create a full fledged GUI with Java you could certainly use Swing. I would prefer SWT as a matter of personal taste, the widget library of Eclipse. You will find a lot of snippets and tutorials (same for Swing). Here is the Widget Library.
Here is a discussion about SWT versus Swing.
You could use the table layout manager to create the layout shown in your screenshot. If you rewrite the application from scretch, you should be able to handle the GUI events and update the widgets according to your application needs. You will easily find articles when you search for swt and table. If you would like to keep the code base and just exchange the GUI, I 'm not sure about the best approach. Maybe, the libs jcurses and charva are the way to go.
Unless you are looking to run the app on a headless VM (where a console/tty is all you've got), I'd use Swing. Create a JTable with a custom TableModel (to provide the data) and custom renderers (to provide the hex formatting) and everything should just work. Consider deriving from the various DefaultXXX implementations to save a lot of work.
Is there a way to write a Java Swing application with a custom chrome? Please take a look* at the frame for Microsoft's Zune 4.0 software.
I realize that colors, the shape of scroll bars, etc. are controlled by skins or looks and feels. Right now I'm trying to tackle the native window which houses the java components--the title bar mainly.
Thanks
(*) http://www.winsupersite.com/zune/zune4_shots.asp
By default the frame of a JFrame is native. This can be removed by calling Frame.setUndecorated. The Sun Window PL&F does not provide a title bar. You could hack aJInternalFrame so that it draws the frame, although that probably isn't going to be as easy as it may seem. Of course, if you are going the full custom route, you can draw whatever you want. From 6u10, Sun's JRE also provides APIs to make windows transparent and non-rectangular.
No part of a Swing component's look and feel is "native" in any way. Swing components are "lightweight", which means they are entirely drawn on the Java side, and not at all on the windowing system side.
To create custom "chrome" you create the UI delegates for one or more components. In yor case, you'd want to muck around with the delegates for JRootPane and JInternalFrame.
The Look and Feel of Swing apps are pluggable..that is it can change on the fly. You can create your own look and feel but its not a simple undertaking. To get started this tutorial explains. This article does a little more.
This project demonstrates what could be done. So its up to your imagination.
If I have Java program and I need to alter it to an interface and include icons,
is there any easy I can do this and is there a good application that can help me to do it ?
or do I have to code it in myself?
Nop, /me thinks ur need 1337 mad Java programin' skillz!
Translation for the rest of the world: Sorry, you'll need to program in Java.
Added: Hey, what's with the downvotes? He started it! :P Besides - no matter if he wants to add or modify (the original text wasn't clear on this) the UI of a Java program, he will need to program in Java to bring his UI together with the code. There is no miracle tool that can allow you to draw an UI and it will suddenly do what you do.
Netbeans has a Swing GUI Builder. Quoting from their website. Let's hope this doesn't count has hidden advertising :)
Design Swing GUIs by dragging and
positioning GUI components from a
palette onto a canvas. The GUI builder
automatically takes care of the
correct spacing and alignment. Click
into JLabels, JButtons, ButtonGroups,
JTrees, JTextFields, ComboBoxes and
edit their properties directly in
place. You can use the GUI builder to
prototype GUIs right in front of
customers.
If you want to add a UI to your Java program there are tools to help you, such as the Swing GUI Builder inside of IntelliJ Idea. However, you're still going to have to write the appropriate code to hook into the UI.
It's just a website? Well depending on whether it uses CSS you might be able to just modify a .css file. This will only let you modify how the site looks as opposed to works.
See here for an example of how this technology works. However this depends on how css-dependent the website is and it's possible you may still run into some difficulties.
You want to use a Java framework to help you with the UI. For example, you can use JSF (Javaserver faces), which allows you to drag and drop components for a UI onto the site. Otherwise, you can use web programs such as Dreamweaver to design the UI, before coding the backend logic yourself in java.