I’m just starting to look into Java Swing for my genetic art project, as I am at a point now where a GUI would help matters out a great deal. I have never been very successful at teaching myself GUI concepts, mostly because I have never had an outlet where I had a project to finish. Now I do, so the going has been slightly easier.
Java Swing has been made by crack addicted monkeys. All the tutorials that I have found give you a lame example with no comments, so you have no idea where to start building your code into their model. Makes me crazy, but for now I’m going to dive back into it.
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Ha. About time you figured that out. I been telling you for years how fucked up the swing api is. Now you believe me.
It’s still better than the proprietary Windows bleh that noone can figure out. An update on the situation… I did figure it out, and it makes plenty of sense once you get past the initial freak out.
I now have a very small Swing GUI that generates the first population of genetic art when you click the Start button, and updates a Progress Bar while it builds the images. And yes, I am proud of myself, thank you very much.
Now I know you are nuts for sure. Nothing about the swing api makes any sense. The windows stuff may be proprietary (but so is every gui for any os), but at least is makes total sense and everyone understands it just fine.
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