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stalife
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada1222 Posts
January 29 2010 04:37 GMT
#1
Hi, thanks everyone for suggesting what language I should learn!(from last blog) Very very helpful!

I want to do little projects of my own, just basic projects. What I want to work on (my first one) is a software that prints out your financial statement. A user will be able to input the different data (assets, liabilities, equity) and after click of a button, it'll output a financial statement.

I'd like to work on other projects in the future as well. However, I'm not sure what application I should use for making the GUI. I am currently working with the NetBeans IDE for Java. What applications would you guys recommend? (or should I just code everything from scratch using eclipse?)

*It is my first project I want to do. It's not a school assignment.

Thanks in advance!

www.memoryexpress.com
hasuprotoss
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States4612 Posts
January 29 2010 04:42 GMT
#2
I always used Eclipse, so I can't really offer TOO much help on the matter, but Eclipse didn't seem too "from scratchy" to me.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/index.php?viewdays=0&show_part=5 <--- Articles Section on TL
stalife
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada1222 Posts
January 29 2010 04:46 GMT
#3
What I meant by "from scratch" for eclipse is that I need to code every single line.

For example, I'd type "private javax.swing.JButton jButton1;" on eclipse, but I can just left click some stuff in palette on NetBeans and it'd give me the same thing.
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Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
January 29 2010 04:54 GMT
#4
I always hated NetBeans and coded gui from scratch using eclipse. I dont know any other programs similar to NetBeans.
KurtistheTurtle
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1966 Posts
January 29 2010 04:54 GMT
#5
I'm not too sure about programming as a whole, but I did learn some visual basic. That's what I'd use
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."
CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
January 29 2010 04:57 GMT
#6
if you're set on doing a graphical interface in java (god help you), then netbeans is your best bet. there are GUI builders available for eclipse, but they aren't provided with the default JDT installation, and they aren't as nice as the GUI builder for netbeans.
By the way, my name is Funk. I am not of your world
Mazar
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States135 Posts
January 29 2010 05:57 GMT
#7
I'm throwing in a vote for hating NetBeans. Stay away from that shit.
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mmp
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States2130 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-01-29 09:21:10
January 29 2010 09:11 GMT
#8
Netbeans is actually kind of cool, and may save you some time, but it won't save you from needing to understand how GUIs work in Swing. Making your own Swing GUI from scratch is a good experience that you shouldn't deprive yourself of by using a WYSIWYG. The Sun online tutorials are of course your best resource for first readings.

It's comparable to working with Qt for C++ in Linux, and a lot nicer than *gasp* the Win32 libraries (total shit).

If you were using C/C++ and wanted to go cross-platform with your UI, I'd recommend working with SDL (although this doesn't provide any nice GUI utilities as far as I'm aware, just gets you the window context).

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On January 29 2010 13:54 KurtistheTurtle wrote:
I'm not too sure about programming as a whole, but I did learn some visual basic. That's what I'd use


And you can shut your face! :D

jk I started with VB, but lol it is SOOOO bad.
I (λ (foo) (and (<3 foo) ( T_T foo) (RAGE foo) )) Starcraft
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