I must admit the fact Forms layout does save loads of time, wrt other Swing layouts. I did try out other examples from http://www.java2s.com/Open-Source/Java-Document/Swing-Library/jgoodies-forms/Catalogjgoodies-forms.htm and worked fine. However, i was more interested in the forms-demo code from the actual developer, is it available ? Couldn't find them, other than the executable jar file.
Did you see the com.jgoodies.forms.tutorial.building link in that page? Seems to link to a number of source code listings.
But see also the Java version of the Forms Demo at JGoodies|Downloads|Applications.
The site seems to have been reorganized since my last visit, but you can probably find those things from http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/
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I'm wanting to style Swing components with CSS and saw this as my best bet. But I'm having a bit of a problem just finding out if I can use it with Eclipse?
Is it also practical for a medium sized project, or should I be looking for another way to style components?
Here is the Document for your answer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19bYF0z5sNiwT-zL5VAZBY1CM0MgHA6pqzZ8dP22llvc/edit?usp=sharing
I am not an expert on a subject of Swing and especially JAXX, but I know a thing or two about Eclipse. If this question is still relevant, you can take my answer as a basis to do some more research.
I searched an Eclipse Marketplace and googled a bit but found nothing about JAXX Eclipse support or plugins. If you know french you can check project's documentation. If there is nothing about tool support in the documentation, I suggest you ask the creators directly.
Eclipse gives you some tools you can use to work with file types JAXX uses. From what I have read here, *.jaxx files are just XML files and stylesheets are just a CSS. I suggest you install XML and CSS support through Eclipse Web Tools Platform and associate *.jaxx files with XML editor either when you first open one of the files with such extension or through File Associations Preferences. In order to compile *.jaxx files you can configure Eclipse Project Builder or use an External Tools launcher.
By the way, have you considered using JavaFX?
#duemir
I have mentioned same thing in my Answer Document.
Please check the Above answer by Me (Jugal Thakkar)
OR
Click on this Link
Go to your Link and Check the Resource in that page and try to go Official Website of JAXX.
You are not able to Go on Official Project Page (www.jaxxframework.org/).
I have mentioned all things in My Document so please first go through that.
I can conclude that on This Question.
1) This Project is not Officially Working. because you can't open official Project Website.
so you are not able to access docs and other stuff.
i have a project that has a JEditorPane in netbeans, at the moment i have this being populated with a chosen .java file. what i would like to happen do is when the java file is loaded the syntax is colored appropriately so that it is easy to read other then the current plain text it is now.
Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this as i am unable to find any good examples of this online?
EDIT: ANSWER
I got this to finally work, i added the JSyntaxPane jar file to my classpath (jsyntaxpane-0.9.5-b29.jar to be exact) then i added the following two lines of code to get it working for my JEditorPane.
jsyntaxpane.DefaultSyntaxKit.initKit();
JEditorPane.setContentType("text/java");
This can also be used on the following languages: JavaScript, Properties, Groovy, C, C++, XML, SQL, Ruby and Python... just by simply changing text/java to text/LANGUAGE_YOU_WANT in the above code
I would suggest to use RSyntaxTextArea (see http://fifesoft.com/rsyntaxtextarea/).
It's very easy to integrate and works great. The documentation contains an example, which shows how to integrate a RSyntaxtTextArea for Java-Syntax-Hightlighting:
http://fifesoft.com/rsyntaxtextarea/examples/example1.php
I was looking for tool on Java that does the same (similar) functionality of "inspect element" of "Google Chrome". Does anyone has information whether this is available and how it can be implemented?
The question refers to cases when you have the Source code and you don't know the inside of it. Thus, the idea is to inspect elements (objects) on UI while running code!
Since you have access to the code you can use the Java Object Inspector.
Just add one line of code at the right place:
Inspector.inspect(objectToInspect);
Inspect Element in Chrome/Firefox and View Source in Safari are there because the internet is open sourced. The HTML code pushed to a user's machine is viewable by them (obviously not the spreadsheets or other static files held on a server.)
Compiled projects don't have this feature for practical reasons.
In many languages it is impossible to "decompile" an object into its source.
If you could go to Microsoft Word and Inspect any element, you could just copy and paste their application without paying.
So no, you cannot take a compiled Java object and click to see its source code.
I remember hearing about a project that did something like that a few years ago. I can't recall the name, but I ran across this while searching for it. https://github.com/cozycode/Swing-Inspector Based on the description, at least. it looks like it might be useful. If I remember what the original project was i'll post a follow up.
for you to find the java code, in the inspect element go to Sources. Look in the picture below. I inspected google and went to Sources this what i found. press on the files. that say js, and the java code will appear.
if you cant see the pic, tell me. or try to download it, and open it on paint.
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I need a table that displays properties and allows their values to be changed. Similar to the Netbeans properties windows for the GUI editor. Does anyone know of any existing classes or libraries. I'd hate to reinvent the wheel on this one.
Edit:
Something like this which allows separators into different groups, JCombos, and JButtons to all be used.
Thanks
I would recommend JTable, and a gridbag layout manager.
The table in NetBeans is PropertySheetView (or similar) and it is part of the NetBeans Platform (PropertySheetView JavaDoc). This class should also be usable in a standalone Swing application by including the necessary NetBeans modules as jar files in the classpath (Found this with a bit of googling).
JTable can be used to display a Grid with values and allow the user to edit the value from columns you enable to it.
You could leverage the JTable class; which should provide the base you need.
JIDE Soft has a number of components, some of them are OpenSource take a look at there to see if you fine the one you need.
For future reference
I'm successfully using l2prof-common's PropertySheetPanel. The documentation is not that great and the API is not that clean, but it works, and the view is nice
The official site is
http://www.l2fprod.com/common/
But the download link is broken; I compiled the propertysheet JAR myself but you can get the whole library from http://www.astrogrid.org/maven/l2fprod/jars/
The library doubles as a demo if you execute the jar and there's also the code in it
I found this other question useful Have com.l2fprod.common.propertysheet.PropertySheetPanel To Display Composited Class
I would recommend taking a look at the SwingX JXTreeTable. I have used it in an application to create a very similar view.
An example screenshot I found on the web (here) to illustrate this
I am trying to link some user docs to my Java Swing application. The user docs are pdf and I would like to be able to click on a button in my application which opens up some sort of pdf renderer to display my userdoc.pdf.
I do not want to use the runtime exec command
I have tried the following with not much success --
pdfRenderer -- this seems to not work for the current version of pdfs (seems to want older pdfs)
acrobat viewer -- I keep getting font errors (the document is displayed but everytime I go to a new page, I get an error)
JPedal pdfHelp - This sounds cool and if it will work, it would be the best for me. But for some reason, I am unable to open any file here. No pdf file that I have loads in the window (The pdfHelp panel comes up with a list of pdfs as promised, but when I right click one of them and say "OpenPDF", I just get a progress bar and the file does not load, I have tried a few files on this and checked file permissions)
JPedal SimpleViewer -- So far this one seems to be the most promising. I would like to remove some of the functionality of this viewer though and am not able to edit the xml to do this. When I edit the xml, then I seem to get xml parsing errors.
Has anybody done anything similar that worked? Help please
PS. I need this to work on Linux machines (IcePDF seems to works only for Windows). I would very much prefer something that is free!
Would Java's Desktop API meet your requirements? It does launch another process, but it's not through you calling Runtime.exec().
The Desktop API uses your host operating system's file associations to launch applications associated with specific file types.
Update: pdfHelp from IDR solutions (creators of JPedal) works now. The latest version (4.0) has fixed the bug and it reads my pdf files (and I am sure more of the latest pdf files). Just playing around with the product today and it is great! There are few minor bugs but I really appreciate how quickly Mark Stephens(?) responded to the first bug. Good work guys!
I chose pdfbox for a similar use case - it's not perfect with every PDF, but works pretty well and is under active development. From the PDDocument you can get a list of PDPage objects, which have a convertToImage() method that gives you a BufferedImage you can draw on screen. I switched to this from pdf-renderer because I felt it gave better results in general.
PdfHelp has moved to its own domain at http://www.pdfhelp.org and have been updated to fix your issues and add some other improvements...