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Thread: GUI: Moving away from the terminal

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    Default GUI: Moving away from the terminal

    Hi guys, I am new to this forum. I have basic java experience, and I am currently using the Eclipse IDE.

    I have programmed only so much in java, but I always wanted to move away from the terminal and get into creating actual user interfaces that one might encounter in a regular program. This is just for practice and my own play--it isn't for any serious project. I was wondering if any experienced java coders could lend a hand on this front by telling me how you first got into creating user interfaces. Where is the best place to start? How did you start?

    With a quick google, I found this (the Swing toolkit):
    Trail: Graphical User Interfaces (The Java™ Tutorials)

    And I'm wondering whether that is what people normally use. Should I start there and just practice with the API? Also, do you think it is worth it to get used to creating GUI's or does it not matter as much as the terminal?

    Thanks for any and all responses.


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    Default Re: GUI: Moving away from the terminal

    that webpage is a good place to learn i am currently learning of that and also on youtube a guy names bucky or TheNewBoston is his username
    he has over 200 java tutorials on things from classes to methods constructors, data types, complex objects, gui and just about everything i have came across so far. i currently use the Swing packages for my gui i dont know if there is another way but pretty sure there is.

    also once you have the basics on how to write code see the java API docs on whatever package you want... its got all the information on every package... just incase you didn't know.... id like to say i been learning for about 3 weeks an there are all things i am finding useful i hope it helps
    and i hope your up for some heavy reading

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    Default Re: GUI: Moving away from the terminal

    Using GUI changes the way the program interacts with a user.
    With the terminal the program prompts the user for input and waits for his response.
    With GUI the program presents a screen with input areas and buttons etc and returns to the JVM to wait for the user's actions. The program will be notified of an action by an event object being passed to a special method known as a listener. The listener's code will then do the processing needed to handle the event. When done, the listener method will return control to the JVM to wait for the next user action. Sometimes the listener code will need to start another thread to do extended processing before it returns control to the JVM so that the processing won't lock up the GUI responsiveness. The lockup occurs because the listener is using the JVM's execution thread known as the Event Dispatch Thread (EDT).

    Lots of new stuff to learn about.
    If you don't understand my answer, don't ignore it, ask a question.

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    Thanks for the responses.

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