Now that we’ve looked at some basic Layout Manager options, lets dive into building one. We’re going to work in the GUI that we’ve been building, first in Extending the JFrame Class, and then when we added JComboBoxes and JList to our project. Here we’re going to combine and use a couple of different layouts…
We’ve been using the null layout manager, in our previous examples of Java Swing. This is sometimes referenced as an absolute positioning layout, because we are required to control how the items are laid out and where. We do this with setBounds() or another method which allows us to define both the size of the…
Building upon the idea of the Local Storage, lets look at a simple example where we have an HTML form with fields of data we want to store, and how we can load that data in. Consider a situation where we need to store a person’s name, and then have it remember them for each…
In general, you want to optimize for search engines as it is one of the most common ways to get visitors to your site, and without visitors to your site, it’s hard to stay in business now a days. If you need a quick overview of how a search engine works, I even have that…
Now that we’ve added JComboBoxes, and Buttons to Create New and Save Data, lets work on loading data from our data source. We have our existing Student Data Access Class which we can use. Now we need to focus on getting a list of students, and displaying them. To do so, we’re going to start…
In our first examples of building a Form in Java, we looked at adding a button and using a simple event listener. Now we want to make a useful button with our Java GUI, ones that will load and save data, as well as one which will allow for creating new data. We’re going to…
Why we use Combo Boxes Combo boxes are a drop down menu option for forms. They allow us to limit the number of potential choices for a person to make, increasing the chance of a person picking a valid and correct option. In our example where we were extending a class for a Java GUI,…
In some cases we’re told what we need to know to rank in a search engine listing. But in many cases, changes and factors are applied without us knowing, which can be frustrating. In most cases, the search engines are trying to thwart “black hat” techniques, so they don’t necessarily want people to know they…
