java, i hate it.

[reven]

ok ive got an assignment due for uni, its all done in java (which i havent used in a while). im having issues with eclipse (for some reason it doesnt like Vector<Object>), anyway after my love affair with vs.net, well is there a ide that you lets you create a JFrame by dragging and dropping ? (the assignment is on Java RMI, and well nothing to do with JFrames or anything, you just need to create a frame, and well, ive forgotten java (my borderlayout (or whatever its called) is giving me issues, this isnt the area i should be spending my time on, and well its taking far too long.). i know theres a lot of java programmers here, hopefully you all use an ide (and not TextPad/NotePad) just wondering if there was anythign out there like this for java?

oh the problem im having is the last control i add to the contentPane

Code:

Container contentPane = this.getContentPane();
contentPane.add(txtName);

is stretched to the full size of the frame, i init every control with the basic code

Code:

JTextBox txtName = new JTextBox();
txtName.setBounds(20,20,100,20);
conentPane.add(txtName);

JTextBox txtLastName = new JTextBox();
txtLastName .setBounds(20,20,100,20);
conentPane.add(txtLastName );

like name will be fine, but lastname is stretched to the full frame size
eg
this.setBounds(20,20,350,350);
txtLastName bounds for some reason is changed to (0,0,350,350);

any help would be appreciated (yeah its nothign to do with gbpvr, but oh well).

[KingArgyle]

Reven, I don't do much GUI design with Java, most of my stuff is backend stuff. You might want to check out the Visual Editor for Eclipse. You can get that here:

http://www.eclipse.org/vep/

A tutorial on how to use it can be found here:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/op...-ecvisual/

Might make your life a bit easier.

[dottore]

for gui-design in java you could use netbeans ide. quite cool for the graphical stuff. try to use a layout-manager, not the default one...

conentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout()) or something similar. then:
conentPane.add(txtName, BorderLayout.NORTH) and so on...

[dottore]

oh, by the way: i would like to use a database with c#. i know, that reven uses a database for myVideos and it is an access-db. that's exactly what i need...can you help me?

[reven]

yeah ill send you so sample code in a few days (have to get this assignment done first ).

[KingArgyle]

Dottore, for a sample of C# code using OLEDB take a look at the source for RenameRecording. It'll give you the basics.

[reven]

thanks guys for the help, i couldnt get eclipse ve working, so i gave up, i managed to use
contentPane.setLayoutManager(null); (or whatever the code is to set it, i just passed it null and then i was able to just use obj.setBounds(...) for every control, problem solved).

and handed the assignment in now i have to study for a test.... im sick of uni.

[KingArgyle]

Reven, here is something else that might work better than VE for Eclipse.

http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/

Probably will make your life easier if you have to do any more Swing or SWT based GUI applications.