Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was ...

An essential part of complex enterprise applications is a console. Consoles are the simplest but most flexible user interface. They provide a window that allows the developer or system operator to ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

importPackage(java.awt.event) importPackage(javax.swing) //Create a JButton var b = new JButton("Press me") //Create a listener and add it to the button var act = { actionPerformed: function ...

JavaFX was something of a darling of JavaOne this week. Oracle not only came through on its promised update of the Java user interface (UI) platform, it delivered additional features, such as a new ...

I've got a class in java for a swing application that extends JFrame. This class is pretty much reponsible for everything to do with a certain window in the program. Everything works great, but come ...

This Java Swing tip illustrates a method of creating fancy buttons in your applications. The code uses JButton as the base and then add a roll over image on the button. This is generally used by game ...

Automation is necessary for frequent and consistent testing, which is the foundation of agile development. However, acceptance tests of GUI applications are not always easy to automate. This tip ...