Is there any way to use textboxes (or Fields) in a PlayN application with TriplePlay, which captures input from the keyboard, without displaying a popup, just like a Swing application? This is meant for desktop, the Popup function may be used for Android.
Do I need to create my own textbox from scratch?
Thanks in advance.
there's still the old code but it was buggy, there are new attempts like Native*TextField, but it's not ready yet
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I want to capture the keyboard and mouse click event on my window everywhere suppose I have opened browser or opened notepad or some other tools, it should not be effected. I know to do one way this with the batch file but I am trying to do this thruogh java libraries. I tried with AWT and swing but they can only capture within their frame.
Please suggest me approach for captuering keyboard and mouse event through java. Any help will be appriciated.
This is problematic the moment you want to run it on different platforms. For Windows, you would need to use Java Native Interface directly to access dll's, or use ready libraries such as this.
These listeners in general are not trivial to implement, but there are some good examples in test sections of linked gitpage.
I am playing with the TightVNC viewer for Java and can't find the way to embed the VNC screen (Viewer) into my JFrame window. I do not want a separate window. In fact I do not want any of those (useful, but sometimes not required) buttons.
Simply put, I want to have a JFrame with VNC viewer taking the whole window, and all other stuff from the TightVNC viewer hidden.
Any ideas how to achieve this will be greatly appreciated.
TigerVNC and TightVNC are almost the same (1st depends on the 2nd), but TigerVNC is organized a bit different. Because I don't think it would add up explaining everything for TightVNC in detail I'd suggest using TigerVNC instead, if it is possible license-wise ... maybe your problem doesn't exist there. The steps are the same (trace through the code or something... to find the places where the viewport is assembled) for all Java GUI applications, just the classes have other names.
I'm making a Java Swing application where the user can run and edit JavaScript and Python code using a ScriptEngine. I want the user to be able to drag-and-drop design custom frames with standard components (buttons, text boxes, etc) and specify code to run when buttons are pressed or text is typed. I will also need a way to load and save the forms and run them inside my app. Are there any libraries I can use for this? I've tried searching around but I'm not finding much.
Back in my, ahem, Visual Basic programming days, I remember it was very easy to create a multi-form program.
In the gui designer I could simply create as many forms as I wanted and then load them in my program where needed.
I'm having a very difficult time doing this in Java.
I started out using the Java FX Scene Builder but soon discovered there doesn't seem to be good MDI support. So, back to Swing. But, again, I don't see a simple way to design a multi form application.
I read somewhere that JDesktopPane was the way to go as it will allow you to have different internal frames, but there is no way, that I can see, to design multiple frames in the NetBeans gui designer.
You would think that you could hide an internal frame in the designer so you can layout another frame. While I can add multiple frames to my JDesktopPane, they all overlap each other making it impossible to design multiple frames.
Are there any tools available to do what I'm trying to do, or do I just need to bite the bullet and code the guis without the help of a designer?
In brief, I just want to create a simple application that displays three or four options on a home screen
Enter new customer
Search for existing customer
Quick estimate
And depending on which the user selects, opens the appropriate form. It would seem that this would be a basic requirement for almost any program and I don't understand why it seems like actually creating an application with multiple windows/forms was never thought of when developing the design/development tools. Thoughts? Suggestions?
If you're really keen on using the multi document interface (MDI) of the JDesktopPane, create each form in it's own class form. Don't drag them to the desktop. This will allow you to isolate them.
(You can double click a internal frame and it should enter "isolation" mode, basically making it the only thing you can see)
However, unless the windows are sharing information (ie you want to see the information in one window to change the information in another), I'd avoid it.
A better solution might be to use a CardLayout which will allow you to switch between each form as you need.
Again, I'd start by building your forms from something like a JPanel, individually, and when you're ready, add them to your main form.
I always encourage people who are coming into Swing anew to hand code their forms, it will give you a great appreciation for how to design forms and the power of the layout managers.
Is there a library out there that can facilitate in creating assist or automated guide that tells users what action to take?
Like it should notice the user is running the software for the first time so it will say click this button, and when the user does, it will explain other features.
sort of like what Youtube's video editor does but I wonder if this is achievable in swing.
I don't know what you call this...but below is a good example to aim for but something that works for Java Swing.
http://jeffpickhardt.com/guiders/
I would do this using JPanel or image and mouse events by setting their visbility properties. I haven't tried it but, I think I can...
I used these libraries which are for rich applications
http://java.net/projects/animatedtransitions/
http://java.net/projects/timingframework/
let me know if you found anything new.
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