Re: JFrame window dimensions

From:
"John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:30:42 -0400
Message-ID:
<nospam-3AE17E.23304211072010@news.aioe.org>
In article <i1dr8g$fr2$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
 markspace <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
[...]

This is interesting, but "Temp" isn't really a great name for any
variable, let alone a class. Most things that are "run" on another
thread can be described as a "task." This task above creates a GUI,
so...

public class CreateGuiTask implements Runnable {

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new CreateGuiTask());
     }

     @Override
     public void run() {
         // etc.

This is just a bit more readable, imo.


Much better! Alas, I am cursed with a heavy editorial hand, and "Test"
was the last thing I _hadn't_ changed. :-)

A correspondent prompted me to consider creating a template. At least,
NetBeans will require a different name, if not a good one.

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.EventQueue;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

/** @author John B. Matthews */
public class ${name} extends JPanel implements Runnable {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new ${name}());
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("${name}");
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.add(this);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }

    public ${name}() {
        this.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(640, 480));
    }
}

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