Category Archives: swing

SQuirrel SQL Client

Posted on 8/25/2005 by Tim

I have been testing out SQuirrel SQL Client today. SQuirrel first came out a few years ago and it has recently been resurrected. Version 2.0 officially came out Aug. 23. It is built with Java Swing and so is supposedly … Continue reading →

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Leaving the cozy IntelliJ womb

Posted on 8/18/2005 by Tim

IntelliJ IDEA can make you feel like a genius. Using IntelliJ, you can write java code fast and it works the first time. It has a nice friendly environment that can lull you to a sense of well-being. Being a … Continue reading →

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JFormattedTextField fixes my dates

Posted on 7/12/2005 by Tim

If you use a JFormattedTextField in Swing to accept user entered dates, you may be annoyed by the default behavior of correcting dates. If the user enters “March 36th”, it will automatically “fix” it to read “April 5th”. Clever little … Continue reading →

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screenshot of Swing App

Posted on 6/3/2005 by Tim

Here is a first shot (O.K. – fifth shot ) of a particular screen for the lake survey application. If anyone cares to, I would love some feedback. It is kind of the template for all the parent-child editing screens … Continue reading →

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bizarre swing behavior

Posted on 5/26/2005 by Tim

Ahhh Swing. If I have a JList and put a ListSelectionListener on it, the listener will fire twice, once for the item you select and once for the item you de-select. Except if you downclick and move the mouse around … Continue reading →

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A thing about Swing

Posted on 3/27/2005 by Tim

The default behavior for rendering an object in a JComboBox is to call the toString() method of that object. If you don’t have a toString() defined, the JComboBox shows an object ID. So, the first try at using a JComboBox … Continue reading →

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