Swing part-two

*Advanced Java Programming

Eriq Muhammad Adams Jeriq.adams@ub.ac.id

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Agenda

*Beans Binding

*Look and Feel

*Create Installer & Executable

*Useful Components

Beans Binding

*Specification is in JSR 295.

*Is used to synchronized properties between two objects.

*Beans binding now fully support matisse GUI Builder (make easier for developer for binding data).

*There are binding source and target.

*Update strategies: Read/Write, Read-Only, Read-Once

*If you want to synchronize properties of two objects but they have different types you have to create Converter.

*Use Validator to filter binding’s value from target.

Beans Binding (cont.)

*General Data flow

Source Target

Converter

ConverterValidator

Beans Binding (cont.)

*Extends org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Converter<S,T> to create new Converter. S is source type, and T is target type.

*Override convertForward(S value):T to converts a value from the source type to the target type.

*Override convertReverse(T value):S to converts a value from the target type to the source type.

*Please learn my tutorial at :http://scc-ub.googlecode.com/files/tutorial.photomanager.pdf.zip

,source code available at :

http://scc-ub.googlecode.com/files/PhotoManager.zip

Beans Binding (cont.)

*To create a new Validator you have to extends org.jdesktop.beansbinding.Validator<T>. T is target type.

*Override validate(T value):Validator.Result to define validation procedure.

Beans Binding (cont.)

*Example : When several items in Jlist is selected, the JComboBox will automatically populated.

If JTextField ‘s value will be changed according to selected item in JComboBox

Demo available at http://eriq.lecture.ub.ac.id/files/2011/03/BeansBindingDemo.zip

Look n Feel

*Programmatically : use UIManager class.

*Non-Programmatically : use --cp:p look_and_feel_jar_path –laf look_and_feel_class_name

*Sample code available at http://eriq.lecture.ub.ac.id/files/2011/03/LookAndFeelDemo.zip

Create Installer & Executable*Launch4J , Jsmooth, etc is tool to create executable for

java apps in windows.

*InnoSetup, NSIS, etc is used to create windows installer.

*Tools above are free for non-commercial or commercial use.

*Launch4j : http://launch4j.sourceforge.net

*Jsmooth : http:// jsmooth.sourceforge.net

*InnoSetup : http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php

*NSIS : http:// nsis.sourceforge.net

Useful Components

*JDIC (JDesktop Integration Component) Project : http://java.net/projects/jdic/

*SwingX (Extended Swing Component) : https://swingx.dev.java.net

*SwingLabs : http://swinglabs.org