i have a desktop GUI in swing , i want to show status of user storage used in the GUI, currently i am using JProgressBar, which is not much attractive, It seems like a simple progress bar.
Please suggest some attractive way to do.
If you are looking for more attractive design. I could suggest you a couple of things:
1-Have a look at javaFX progress bars , you might find something interesting
http://download.oracle.com/javafx/1.3/tutorials/UIControls/progress.html
2-If you use the standar progress bar from the java tutorial maybe you could try to edit it yourself. Have a look at this link
Example of self customization:
UIManager.put("ProgressBar.background",Color.BLUE);
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Is possible to make a floating notification on a java Swing GUI like JQuery Noty?
Better if is possible with animations.
Please have a look into the following https://java.net/projects/swingx/downloads/directory/releases
I had worked it while my graduation, i think it might help you, its not look like jquery noty but it has more controls along with some animation.
examples for your reference:
http://www.dzone.com/links/r/swingx_tutorial_busy_label_jxbusylabel.html
http://developerlife.com/tutorials/?p=240
In all my time so far working with Java and its Swing GUI framework, I've never quite figured out (or even attempted to try) how to make the interface animate components.
Say I wanted the screen to slide left into the next screen or have a JLabel "fly" to a new location. Perhaps you want a menu to smoothly open in an animated fashion. How does this work?
Do you have to use SwingWorker? Even if that's the case... how can you control the painting of components if the layout manager is already doing that?
Have a look at the book Filthy Rich Clients, you will find some really good answers there.
I think that there no reason for use SwingWorker, SwingWorker is designated for running long Backgroung Task(s) on output would be on Event dispatch Thread,
For animations in Swing is there javax.swing.Timer, examples here
Take a look at Trident library. You can use it to interpolate various properties in your class.
I'm looking to create an interface similar to that of the iPhone's SMS screen. More specifically I'm looking to replicate the "bubbles" coming from each side of the page which contain the messages, as shown here http://www.bidslammer.com/images/iphone_shot1.png .
I do also want to recreate the date and time above the bubbles like you can see in that image. I need to be able to do this by code because its use will be to display the messages that it receives over my socket connection, and show the messages I send over the socket.
I'm really new to Java, and even newer to Swing, so I'm looking for some pointers on how I should go about this.
Can anyone offer my any suggestions about how I would go about doing this? I'm not looking for someone to do the work for me, just a few pointers, perhaps some things I should learn how to use/do and perhaps a helpful tutorial or two.
Google for "swing tutorial" gives a lot of tutorial links, so just pick one. When I was learning Swing I used original Java Swing tutorial.
As for some pointers, I think good idea is to use images to represent the bubbles - that will be the easiest. Inherit some basic component like JLabel or JPanel and override a drawing method - do a custom drawing. First draw the bubble image and then the text over it. This may help with image drawing.
Generally with custom component drawing you use Graphics class, which provides a lot of useful drawing methods.
The sticky notes demo might get you started in the right direction.
Even though that demo is a NetBeans platform module, the sticky note itself is a pure Swing component and should be usable without the platform.
I am developing desktop GUI application using java swing. And I want to show several "subwindow" on the same window(JFrame). And I want the layout is similar to iGoogle such that user can add and remove new subwindow. To be simple, I assume all the "subwindows" have the same size and similar content(all are showing chart). By the way, the maximum number of "subwindow" would not be a huge number. I think it is less than 8.
if there is no drag and drop, can I just use grid layout to
implement it?
if there is drag and drop, what is the easy way to
do it?
Thank You very much.
FYI: iGoogle http://www.google.com.hk/ig
I don't know what iGoogle is, but it sounds like you should be using internal frames. See the section from the Swing tutorial on How to Use Internal Frames.
If all the "sub windows" will be equal size and not draggable, I'd just use a simple layout. seems like a good case to use TableLayout. In a simple case where you know the max amount of slots, you could have 8 corresponding JPanels and add them to Container using the table layout (making sure to revalidate()) as the user requests them. if a user closes one, you just remove it from the container and revalidate. Hope that helps. if you don't need docking functionality, don't even go down that road is my advice.
EDIT:
you could also still implement drag and drop by using your own mouse handlers.
This is for an application so I don't want a hyperlink. I first tried using a Jbutton without all of border/background stuff and then hooking up an actionListener to it but I couldn't get it to the point where I thought it looked nice. I also tried using a JLabel and hooking up a mouse listener to that but I also couldn't get it to look right.
Basically I would like a way using swing to make a button exactly like a url link in an application. What is the standard way of doing this?
but I couldn't get it to the point where I thought it looked nice
You might want to go into greater detail on just what "looked nice" means. I can see you solving this by either a JButton or a JLabel, but the key is perhaps not to look for another solution but to play with the settings of the button or the label til they look nice. If you can't find a nice solution, then post your code (an SSCCE would work best of all) and perhaps we can help you.
that isn't answer to your question but are you tried to add ButtonModel to your JButton example here
It is a rather heavy hammer to use, but SwingX has a JXHyperLink control that is probably exactly what you want. The source is at http://java.net/projects/swingx/sources/svn/content/trunk/swingx-core/src/main/java/org/jdesktop/swingx/JXHyperlink.java?rev=4027 and you can see an article about it at http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t18617.html.
It is old, but SwingX continues to do good things.
It's you're trying to make a desktop application which looks like HTML inside a browser, you might try using some of the richer Swing text components in a read-only mode. You could use a mouse-listener to map X/Y clicks to a particular character of text, and then cause an action to occur on that basis.