Swing skeleton app

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anondude123@gmail.com - 11 Oct 2006 04:02 GMT

Hi All,
I am working on a Swing app (currently running 1.5, going to 1.6 soon)
and need to package up the application's elements nicely in an
*application* with a menu bar, toolbar, etc.. . Kinda like the eclipse
GUI (except I am bound to Swing and can't use SWT due to existing code
I have to work with).

So my question is, does anyone know where I can find an example of a
**Swing** skeleton application, or an example app that looks something
like this one.

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/skeleton-pro/images/skeleton-pro.png

The Skeleton Pro thingy looks really slick and I would love to use it,
but I cannot be locked into another vendor's code (I think only the L&F
part is open-source).

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Clive.

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IchBin - 11 Oct 2006 04:44 GMT

> Hi All,
> I am working on a Swing app (currently running 1.5, going to 1.6 soon)
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>
> Clive.

I do not think that code is open. If you download the Forms and Looks
Libs you can go thru the examples that they have. Some look the same.

http://www.jgoodies.com/downloads/index.html

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lucky - 11 Oct 2006 08:00 GMT

> > Hi All,
> > I am working on a Swing app (currently running 1.5, going to 1.6 soon)
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> 'If there is one, Knowledge is the "Fountain of Youth"'
> -William E. Taylor, Regular Guy (1952-)

Did u get any examples?

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Michael Rauscher - 11 Oct 2006 08:31 GMT

anondude123@gmail.com schrieb:

> Hi All,
> I am working on a Swing app (currently running 1.5, going to 1.6 soon)
> and need to package up the application's elements nicely in an
> *application* with a menu bar, toolbar, etc.. . Kinda like the eclipse
> GUI (except I am bound to Swing and can't use SWT due to existing code
> I have to work with).

Perhaps it's worth to have a look at the NetBeans Platform
(platform.netbeans.org).

Bye
Michael

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 11 Oct 2006 08:41 GMT

> I am working on a Swing app (currently running 1.5, going to 1.6 soon)
> and need to package up the application's elements nicely in an
> *application* with a menu bar, toolbar, etc..

Throwing that together in a JFrame is a matter of a few lines of code.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/menu.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/toolbar.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/frame.html

Coding all the details, designing the icons, binding to actions (or
action events) is another story. Consider using a GUI builder like
Matisse, which comes with the Netbeans IDE.

/Thomas

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sassan.aria@gmail.com - 11 Oct 2006 17:32 GMT

Hi,
The NetBeans Platform is exactly what you're looking for. It provides
all the L&F and GUI functionality to make an application that looks
like NetBeans. Pretty amazing stuff and it's all Swing based.
URL: http://www.netbeans.org/products/platform/
Screenshots :
http://www.netbeans.org/products/platform/screenshots.html

Eclipse provides the same skeleton type thing called RCP (Rich Client
Platform), which is SWT based (and it really does not work with Swing).
URL: www.eclipse.org/rcp/
Screenshots : http://www.eclipse.org/community/rcpos.php

Hope that helps.
Good luck.

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Karsten Lentzsch - 27 Oct 2006 10:43 GMT

> [...]
> So my question is, does anyone know where I can find an example of a
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> but I cannot be locked into another vendor's code (I think only the L&F
> part is open-source).

The eclipse-like panels with the gradient header
and drop shadows are open source. These ship with
the free JGoodies Looks, see https://looks.dev.java.net/
And there's a demo that uses this panel.

Skeleton Pro is primarily intended for learning purposes,
not for the design. It demonstrates desktop patterns,
and how to tie together a Swing application.

-Karsten Lentzsch

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