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Excellent job! Now someone just needs to the same thing for a simple gui app, including some form of gui testing.
Thanks for the feedback. My original intention was to include a GUI app as part of the tutorial, but it became clear that this was way beyond the scope of what I could do in a reasonable number of lessons.
I am interested in creating a GUI tutorial, but I have a few questions. Your comments would be appreciated.
1. Would the GUI tutorial need to be video / screencam format or would a written format be just as valuable? The reason I ask is that a GUI app involves a lot of code, and you might not want to watch me type it all in. On the other hand, if the video format is better, I would like to know.
2. I had also thought of having a video tutorial showing how to use Eclipse to run the many good GUI example programs available from Sun, Eclipse, and others. This would not involve writing GUI programs from scratch, but would give you an introduction enough to explore these sample programs on your own, using Eclipse. Do you think this would be valuable?
3. Which GUI are you most interested in -- Swing, SWT (Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit), or RCP (Eclipse Rich Client Platform)?
Thanks again for your feedback. Any thoughts about these questions will be much appreciated. Mark Dexter
In my opinion:
1. The GUI tutorial is the best. I think, some good GUI tutorial demo like Total Training, Linda, e.g is quite useful to consult. Sometimes they type all code, sometimes they have typed code.
2. I think this tutorial is very very valuable. There are much GUI example from others , but it may be not a system and they may be not very basic
3. SWT, I most interested in it.
I am reading pdf file and ejoying all tutorials. When I finish, I'll give some more feedback.
And I just want to give a reference: www.javapassion.com. It is a good site about java. I think some tutorials like this site will made the this tutorials more valuable.
Regards,
1. For me I really enjoyed the screencam format and if you took the time to code an entire project from the ground up I would indeed watch it all. However I do feel that it may be too long for general consumption. Perhaps instead of coding everything by hand it would be better to use the visual editor which would speed up the project development time right? Or you could have the complete source code available and just talk about a few important aspects of gui development. I.E. show how to set a layout, make a button, and configure an event listener once; there would be no need to show how to make every button or event listener.
2. I would be interested in this.
3. I'm fairly new to Java gui development, although I have heard of each of these widget toolkits / frameworks I don't feel competent enough to answer this question.
You ask: "Which GUI are you most interested in -- Swing, SWT (Eclipse Standard Widget Toolkit), or RCP (Eclipse Rich Client Platform)?"
I'd like a beginner's tutorial to give me the necessary info to make that decision!
So you'd like perhaps a quick introduction to Swing, SWT, and RCP? Perhaps doing some simple GUI examples in each? Thanks. Mark