ISP and DNS problems have been resolved -- it's time to join the Swixml FORUM

After more problems with an ISP and related forum downtime, I think  
the forum is now readily available for all swixml developers and  
users at:
http://www.swixml.org/forum/

Again, the content of the mailing list is not lost and available and  
searchable here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/forum%40carlsbadcubes.com/

Frank over in Berlin, Germany and Kate at the East Coast have  
confirmed their continued involvement and will play an even stronger  
role in the future. Both are administratoring the newly created forum.

OK, it's time to register and join. See you all at
http://www.swixml.org/forum/

Wolf

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Wolf Paulus

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Important News about the Swixml User Forum / Mailinglist

Like many of you have noticed, we experienced a lot of problems with  
the Swixml Mailinglist lately.
The only way to improve things was to change ISPs and the Swixml.org  
web site is hosted at "Host It Now Networks" since 2/22/2006.
The transition went very smoothly without any downtime.

Now I'd like to retire the mailinglist, and switch over to a "real"  
forum like SMF, which is installed and readily available at :
http://www.swixml.org/forum/

Fortunately, the old mailing list's content is backedup at several  
places around the net, like:
http://www.mail-archive.com/forum%40carlsbadcubes.com/
or at http://news.gmane.org/

However, I have to ask you to re-register at the new forum.

Frank over in Berlin Germany and Kate at the East Coast have already  
signed up and confirmed their continued involvement. Both will play  
an even stronger role in the future and are the administrators of the  
newly created forum.

If you haven't already done so, read Joshua Marinacci Article:  
"Building GUIs with SwiXml" over at java.net or here: http:// 
www.swixml.org/buildgui.pdf
Swixml is still going strong, the distribution is currently download  
a little over 100-times per day on average and while Swixml has seen  
hardly any updates lately, I'd like to put it on a faster update  
cycle again and add some interesting new capabilities as well.

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Re: Problem with TextArea

Hi Rajkumar,

try something like this:

<textarea>
This is a sample message.
This is a sample message.
</textarea>

Because you define the GUI in xml, you have to accept the rules of that format...

Yours,

Frank Meissner

List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products <Forum <at> carlsbadcubes.com> schrieb am
03.03.06 14:29:05:
> Hi,
> 
>       When I use "\n" in the text of the TextArea. But it is not considering it as
> 
> a newline instead it is printing the text with "\n" character. I tried to debug
> 
> and final found out that the SwiXML parsing (i.e SAX parser) used is converting the
> 
> "\n" to "\\n" so that in the output the "\n" is printed as it is.
> 
> 
> <textarea text="This is a sample message.\n This is a sample message."/>
> 
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Problem with TextArea

Hi,
      When I use "\n" in the text of the TextArea. But it is not considering it as
a newline instead it is printing the text with "\n" character. I tried to debug
and final found out that the SwiXML parsing (i.e SAX parser) used is converting the
"\n" to "\\n" so that in the output the "\n" is printed as it is.

<textarea text="This is a sample message.\n This is a sample message."/>

                        Please help me to get rid of this situation. I want the SwiXML to recognize
the "\n" as a newline character.

regards,
Rajkumar

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Autoodpowiedź (poza biurem): [Forum] problem with MatteBorder.

Informuję, że do dnia 6 marca 2006 r.. jestem nieobecny w pracy.
W sprawach związanych z aplikacją RiN proszę kontaktować się z Panem Arturem Krzykalskim

Grzegorz Koperek

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Re: Custom Tags: Anyone doing it?

Hello,

actually, I use custom tags a lot. Some are simple, some more complex.

One of the more complex custom tag I use deals with the limitation of JCheckboxMenuItem, as this does not
propagate its selected state to actions connected. So I extended JCheckboxMenuItem, JToggleButton and
AbstractAction (no custom tag for that, as you may have guessed). In the extended classes I fire a property
change event in the overwritten method setSelected().

Other custom tags include drag-and-drop-images, components displaying some zoom factor, help enabled
everything (see mailinglist archive for that).

Hope this gives you a rough idea.

Yours,

Frank Meissner

List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products <Forum <at> carlsbadcubes.com> schrieb am
01.03.06 02:08:48:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I am starting a new project and think that using custom tags would be a 
> great solution to my problem.
> 
> Are there anyone here who can tell me there experiences using custom tags?
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: problem with MatteBorder.

Hello Jan,

Working with:
java version "1.5.0_06", "1.4.2_09"
classpath (current directory the swximl-directory root, fetched from cvs or extracted source zip...):
lib/j2h.jar:lib/jdom.jar:build/classes. The Jlfgr jar is missing, so the buttons of the control panel
do not have icons... I did not mention that...

I did the same with the original swixml jar file from the website, it worked as well.

OS in all cases is linux, kernel 2.6.12-9-386.

It seems your problem lies somewhere else. Try stripping the classpath like I did.

List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products <Forum <at> carlsbadcubes.com> schrieb am
01.03.06 02:09:22:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello Frank,
> 
> my apologies for writing such a rude mail without beginning and ending. I
> somehow sent the mail before it was entirely complete.
> I do not use eclipse but JDK plus ant or JDK plus simple commands. I have
> runned your test program also. It is not a refresh problem.
> I also tried if it perhaps is a Look and Feel problem (that the border
> perhaps is surpressed when you use certain look and feels)
> but that is also not the case, because
>   1) switching LAF does not solve the problem
>   2) an other type of border, LineBorder, does work.
> 
> swixml.jpg shows cross platform look and feel with a call to
> JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
> swixml2.jpg shows the same thing using LineBorder(red) instead of
> MatteBorder(4,4,4,4,red) - that does work!
> 
> It really is strange and I just dont have an explanation.... nor why the
> MatteBorder does work at your computer, apparently. I wonder what JDK and OS
> you have used.
> 
> regards,
> Jan.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Forum-bounces <at> carlsbadcubes.com
> [mailto:Forum-bounces <at> carlsbadcubes.com]On Behalf Of List for Users of
> Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products
> Sent: zondag 26 februari 2006 19:03
> To: List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products
> Subject: Re: [Forum] problem with MatteBorder.
> 
> 
> Hello Mrs/Mr nobody,
> 
> I had no problem whatsoever running your xml-file. Border shows up and
> responds to changes of the insets (like, substituting all 4 with 8).
> 
> Be sure to get the correct xml file rendered and (if you are using
> Eclipse) refresh the project the files are in. Sometimes this causes
> strange "cache effects" I encountered as well...
> 
> I add a small test program which may ease the development. Place it in
> the swixml-source path at the correct place and the swixml-test.xml in
> your classpath as well.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Frank Meissner
> 
> List for Users of Carlsbad Cubes' Technologies and Products schrieb:
> > If I run the gridbag example that is on the website (xml see below), I
> dont
> > get the red MatteBorder (in JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5).
> > I compiled SwiXML in debug mode and even added a print statement in the
> > BorderConverter class, just before the border is actually created.
> >
> >       System.out.println("Invoking createxxxxBorder method");
> >       border = (Border) method.invoke( null, args );
> > (on line 149 of the BorderConverter class (swixml #144) ).
> >
> > The print line shows up, no exceptions show up, but I still dont see any
> > border. My OS is windows XP.
> >
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> > <frame name="frame" size="500,300" title="Simple Complaint Dialog"
> > background="FFCCEE" layout="BorderLayout">
> >       <panel name="pnl" background="3399CC"
> border="MatteBorder(4,4,4,4,red)"
> > constraints="BorderLayout.CENTER" layout="GridBagLayout">
> >               <button name="btn1" text="Wonderful">
> >                       <gridbagconstraints id="gbc_1" insets="2,2,2,2"
> gridx="0" gridy="0"
> > ipadx="15" ipady="15" weightx="1" weighty="1"/>
> >               </button>
> >               <button name="btn2" text="World">
> >                       <gridbagconstraints use="gbc_1" gridx="1"/>
> >               </button>
> >               <button name="btn3" text="of">
> >
> >                       <gridbagconstraints insets="2,2,2,2" gridx="0"
> gridy="1" ipadx="0"
> > ipady="0" weightx="1.0" weighty="1.0"/>
> >               </button>
> >               <button name="btn4" text="Swing">
> >                       <gridbagconstraints insets="2,2,2,2" gridx="1"
> gridy="1" ipadx="0"
> > ipady="0" weightx="1.0" weighty="1.0"/>
> >               </button>
> >       </panel>
> > </frame>
> >
> >
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> >
> 
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Problems with tables

Hi all,

i've encountered problems with rendering tables. In fact i wasn't  
able to render a simple table. Can anyone provide me a simple example?

Greeting
Wolfgang 

Custom Tags: Anyone doing it?

Greetings,

I am starting a new project and think that using custom tags would be a 
great solution to my problem.

Are there anyone here who can tell me there experiences using custom tags?

Thanks 

whatever happened to franklin?

just passing this on:

> From: Warner Onstine <sw-list <at> warneronstine.com>
> Date: February 18, 2006 12:44:18 PM MST
> To: Forum <forum <at> carlsbadcubes.com>
> Subject: whatever happened to franklin?
>
> Last week at our JUG one of our members presented on building Swing 
> apps using Spring to declare all the beans, and of course this 
> immediately reminded me of SwiXML. After the preso we had our standard 
> Q&A session and one of our member brought up the real problem with 
> building GUIs is having to deal with all the xml and how much he 
> enjoyed using Theodore (although not necessarily Thinlets), this of 
> course reminded me of Franklin so I decided to go looking again at the 
> old carlsbadcubes site to see if any update had been given and I can't 
> find a reference to it anymore.
>
> Is Franklin dead? Or just in seclusion somewhere?
>
> After seeing Matisse I'm anxious to hear if any progress was being 
> made on Franklin, because (and I"m not alone here) I would rather have 
> my code in something that is easy to move around (xml, say) than a 
> binary or even Java format (xml is much easier to transform). Just 
> thought I'd check in and see what was going on.
>
> Although I haven't used SwiXML, I know others who love it, so thanks 
> Wolf!
>
> -warner

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I am writing my Master Thesis. The main area of it will be GUI - Java - XML and analyses of different libraries for creating GUI from XML with use of Java .
I would like to ask, if someone could give me some advice. The most important part of this thesis is to choose proper and able for future development libraries. Already I have decided to analyse SwiXml and Thinlet.
The question is what do you think about this choice and which other would you consider worth of writing about (because of large number of them - not all of them can be included in my work).
I will be really thankful for any answer.

 

Triszia

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