Glen

Icons for Swing Apps

We’re chasing a few icons for our Swing GUI, and I’m surprised about the relatively few sites that do bundles of commercial icons. Most people will price you *per icon*, but that ends up being quite a big figure (in the order of $50USD per icon). Anyways I’m looking for a bundle that I can buy for the Bytecode that we can use on future projects too, and I’ve shortlisted the...

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Cool Swing-ish Stuff

After a ton of interesting feedback last time, I’ve scoped out some interesting Swing bits and pieces. I’ve got most of what I needed, but here’s the summary so far: JGoodies Forms for layout management – I finally have found a layout manager that I understand and that does what I want! l2fProd provides exactly the button bar I was after (very Mozilla-ish) exe4j is a very...

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Commercial Swing Components?

I’m interested in hearing any reviews from people who’ve used commercial (or otherwise) Swing component libraries. I’m after a slick set of controls that are easy to use and visually spot on. Surprisingly, Google doesn’t seem to be turning up too many Swing component libraries out there. The JSuite stuff looks pretty darn nice… but fairly expensive. I’d love to get a...

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The Joy of JNI, DLLs, and XP

We’ve got an Applet that makes a JNI call to a DLL. Been working happily on several hundred Windows NT (don’t ask) boxes out there for some time. Good good. Then we start testing against XP… and the core dumps begin… I’ve been using debug mode in VC++ and stepping through the whole call trace. All good. Then I build a Release version of the DLL. Unlucky – crashes IE...