Re: Help: Overriding the paintComponent when using the Netbeans GUI Builder
john wrote:
Please try to put your comments *immediately after*
the relevant text, and trim other text no longer needed
(including signatures).
Andrew Thompson wrote:
john wrote:
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I wrote a Japplet using the Netbeans's GUI builder.
...hmm. Applets in themselves are tricky enough, but
you want to throw a complex IDE into the mix.
Is that just to make things interesting?
You are probably right. It seems that mixing the GUI builder with
overriding paintComponent isn't a straight forward task (I just
thought it would be) so I'll probably write the swing manually.
At least until you understand basically how layouts work,
I think that is a good idea. You might find that once
you have that understanding, you can revisit the GUI
builder and get *it* to work for you as well..
Concerning the Reading/Writing local files from web Applets, I found a
way using CGI scripts to do it without signed classes or security
warnings.
OK. But my point (at that instant) was about applets in
general, rather than signed applets specifically.
Applets are harder to debug and deploy than applications.
Futher, an unsigned, web-started, application could
access those same scripts, but in a much more
predictable environment (i.e. no browser to deal with).
..My goal is to have a stand alone web application at the end.
I am not sure what you mean by this mix of terms,
I would hardly consider any applet that exists in
a web-page in a browser to be 'stand alone'.
OTOH, check the ..'two applications'* you can launch here.
<http://www.physci.org/pc/>
The ones if interest are the two .jnlp files.
Click those to launch JTest (a simple program I wrote to
query the Java proerties) to see two forms of the same
application, both launched using webstart - one use the
'applet' form of the program, the other launches the
application.
Either of those unsigned applications has access back
to the server that launched them - they can 'phone home'
in the same way as an unsigned applet.
I suggest you use WebStart - and make an application.
* It is of course, neither '2', they are the same program,
nor 'applications' since one is the applet form.
What do you think would be a user friendlier tool, Netbeans or Eclipse?
Oh that's easy. The one I use more often* is the most
user friendly. (And I suspect that people's answers will
almost invariably fall along those lines - even if they don't
realise it!)
* It does it matter which I use most often. ;-)
Andrew T.