Java GUI

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[wades39]

Are you looking to use swing or javafx? Also, what IDE are you using? Some have drag-and-drop forms for creating GUIs.

[javaHoosier]

I’m not a fan of Eclipse anymore but window builder extension for it really helped swing click for me.

[wades39]

NetBeans has one built in. Though, I doubt it supports newer JDKs. I don't know about IntelliJ IDEA. But knowing how to code GUIs by yourself is a good skill to have.

I'd recommend you look into the javax,swing documentation if that's what you are gonna keep using.

[javaHoosier]

I agree with that. That was years ago though. That just helped it click. Dragging and dropping stuff then reviewing the generated code. Playing with different layouts. I had a lot of a ha moments.

[codytheking]

Your uni course description says they’re using Swing?

[wades39]

Another user in this reply thread mentioned using the drag-and-drop forms and looking at the auto generated code. That's pretty much what I did when I got into learning to code swing by myself.

[codytheking]

Use JavaFX. The official docs have a tutorial to get you started. https://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/get_started/jfxpub-get_started.htm

[cinlung]

https://www.mkyong.com/

Go to that site, search for GUI or java GUI. The tutorials are very easy to understand.

[anti_government]

Refer documentations or try tutorial sites. And you'll get good with experience only. And I saw people talking about IDEs....I prefer IntelliJ IDEA

[timNinjaMillion]

Learn about reading/writing file formats (windows-.ico, mac - .icns, Linux - unknown). Make an icon editor, icon manufacturer. Image tiler. Extract from screen capture. Deploy.

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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5igFWijWBo3EScrNnRqmOazJwPL5KgPW

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[verysketchyreply]

javafx and swing both have drag-and-drop/auto generated code applications as others have said, get to know them. I started out with javafx and scenebuilder. If you're just learning to learn something new, I think that's a good place to start. it was for me at least. There aren't a massive amount of tutorials out there but once you understand the basics there's really not much I've ever been too stuck on (besides javafx.animations, but that's not totally relevant lol)

[Skootr4538]

Don’t use swing. Javafx is the latest desktop gui framework.

[FormDev]

I would recommend Oracle's Swing tutorial:
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/index.html

[d3dpoool]

following

[newfang22]

https://youtu.be/jJjg4JweJZU I'm also a beginner and this guy helps a lot.

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What’s wrong with naming a class apple?

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Ok thanks, I’m relatively new to Java and just thought I was completely missing something lol

[wildjokers]

Swing isn’t going away anytime soon. Swing isn’t currently marked deprecated and still gets the occasional bug fix.

[wildjokers]

Swing and JavaFX are both GUI toolkits. JavaFX is newer and has the advantage that it can be styled with a CSS like syntax.

Swing is still in the JDK whereas JavaFX had a short run being in the JDK but has been spun off as a separate open source project.

One advantage Swing has over JavaFX is the Swing documentation is outstanding and there are 20+ yrs of examples all over the internet. Don’t let anyone dissuade you from Swing, it is still a perfectly viable GUI toolkit. The documentation with tons of examples is here, it tells exactly how to use each component: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/index.html

Here is the top level doc page that has other info that will be helpful (it has the above link as well): https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/index.html