gui tutorials

[liluma]

hello java forums. ^^

i was just trying to create some decent gui's and noticed that i actually don't have the required skills needed to make decent gui's...
so i started searching the internet for some nice gui tutorials in java.

but i haven't found any...
every tutorial i found was just a simple one... (so only one layoutmanager)

so my question is do you guys know any site/online tutorial that can help me making decent gui's

or any plugins, addons that can simplify making gui's?

grtz liluma

[Norm]

One good site is the java tutorials:
The Really Big Index

It has links to sections of the tutorials for all topics.

[liluma]

thnks. :p ^^

will give it a look right away.

ty norm

[JosAH]

@liluma; about your avatar: what is that? It looks like a filthy leftover from an operating theatre *yuck*.

kind regards,

Jos

[handuel]

@liluma; about your avatar: what is that? It looks like a filthy leftover from an operating theatre *yuck*.

kind regards,

Jos

Off topic I know but: Looks more like a nebula to me :)

Also, for quick gui creation when you just want it to work, so you can get down to the important elements of the code, you can use a gui creater, both netbeans and eclipse have good ones of these.

[JosAH]

Off topic I know but: Looks more like a nebula to me :)

A nebula? Eeeeeew! Shouldn't it be muzzeld? They may look like slimey blobs but they have killer fangs and claws!

Also, for quick gui creation when you just want it to work, so you can get down to the important elements of the code, you can use a gui creater, both netbeans and eclipse have good ones of these.

Gui creators are worse than a mixed blessing; if you don't know exactly how the internals of gui objects work and if you don't know what that builder is doing you end up with a bunch of code you don't understand and can't sensibly manipulate anymore (if that builder allows you to change the generated code). Better build the gui by hand ...

kind regards,

Jos

[liluma]

it's indeed a nebula in space...

don't know, but i like the pictures when you see it in full size...

on topic:
i know there are some "good' gui creators, but i dislike using them...
first of all because you actually don't learn a thing about the gui and secondly because of the fact that with gui creators, your gui isn't dynamical, but mostly fixed positions,...

so that's why i want to learn how to fully code a gui myself.
i know all the(or at least most) obejcts that you can create with swing, javax, ... but the problem is just the layout... to me that is just a painstaking thing to do in java.

grtz liluma

[Fubarable]

it's indeed a nebula in space...

It doesn't quite look like Orion's to me. :)

i know there are some "good' gui creators, but i dislike using them...
first of all because you actually don't learn a thing about the gui and secondly because of the fact that with gui creators, your gui isn't dynamical, but mostly fixed positions,...

I *like* your thinking son!

so that's why i want to learn how to fully code a gui myself.
i know all the(or at least most) obejcts that you can create with swing, javax, ... but the problem is just the layout... to me that is just a painstaking thing to do in java.

This will get a *lot* easier with practice and will become almost second nature to you.

Just keep on codin'.