Swing JPanel generator from class (for class attribute editing)

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John Abraham - 24 Jun 2004 21:23 GMT

Is there any tool (public domain or otherwise) that will generate
JPanels or JDialogs to edit the attributes of a class? A default
instance editor?

I've looked at many of the GUI builders, and for the most part I think
I prefer to hand code my GUI code. But it would be nice to have an
initial implementation to start with -- a JTextField in the
view-controller for every String in the model, a JTable for every
array or ArrayList in the model, a button for every class reference
variable that would open a dialog for that class, a checkbox for every
boolean, etc.

It seems like it would be easy to generate such code. It must be,
because I keep typing the same mindless things over and over.

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John Abraham
jabraham (at) ucalgary (dot) ca

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Roedy Green - 24 Jun 2004 22:13 GMT

>Is there any tool (public domain or otherwise) that will generate
>JPanels or JDialogs to edit the attributes of a class? A default
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>It seems like it would be easy to generate such code. It must be,
>because I keep typing the same mindless things over and over.

I call those things stompers. I have posted code for them and got a
rain of cabbages for wasting bandwidth. I you send me an unmunged
email I will send you mine you can tweak for yourself. I don't
release them as products since they are not usable without tuning for
your own circumstances.

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John Abraham - 26 Jun 2004 18:01 GMT

> >Is there any tool (public domain or otherwise) that will generate
> >JPanels or JDialogs to edit the attributes of a class? A default
> >instance editor?

> I call those things stompers. I have posted code for them and got a
> rain of cabbages for wasting bandwidth. I you send me an unmunged
> email I will send you mine you can tweak for yourself. I don't
> release them as products since they are not usable without tuning for
> your own circumstances.

Ok, cool, thanks. I'll email you directly.

Interestingly when searching google I found that I posted virtually
the same post in June of 1999, 5 years ago! The more things change...

http://groups.google.ca/groups?q=group:*java*+jabraham&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=7
jq16t%24e9u%40ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca&rnum=1

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John
jabraham (at) ucalgary (dot) ca

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Will Hartung - 24 Jun 2004 22:15 GMT

> Is there any tool (public domain or otherwise) that will generate
> JPanels or JDialogs to edit the attributes of a class? A default
> instance editor?

I can't think of any specific examples, but there may be something
"stealable" from any of the IDEs that let you edit JavaBean components,
because that's basically the same thing.

Most seem to use a JTable for the entire thing.

Other than that, it's a pretty a simple matter to hack something out using
reflection. Layout is always a detail, plus label names and value
validation. That immediately expands the scope from a "simple hack" to
something else.

It would take me 1-2 hours to rough that out if I punted on collections in a
JTable (because then you need to make a dynamic model to support the beans
in the collection, which is essentially the exact same problem using a
JTable instead of the JPanel -- plus I don't have a good dynamic JTable
working well yet).

But it is a good idea, and I may just write something like that.

Regards,

Will Hartung
(willh@msoft.com)

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