Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing

Re:Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing by jurre on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @10:36AM (#3352178)

I cringe every time I have to make a Swing GUI for Java projects at my uni. It might just be me, but I can never get them to look half decent.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing by Kototama on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @10:59AM (#3352295)

The Nimbus theme does not look so bad, otherwise you can still set the native theme. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/n...

I wrote an article last year on how to design the dialogs with Netbeans and write the code with Clojure: http://inclojurewetrust.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-to-build-gu...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing by veeti on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @11:50AM (#3352499)

The "native theme" still looks poor and out of place.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Clojure Desktop Applications with Swing by jon914 on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @01:27PM (#3352963)

With some custom code and the help of libraries like MacWidgets, you can make some decent native-looking GUI's with Swing. See my profile for an example of one - it's a large-scale desktop application.

I concede though that if you go with out of the box LNF's, even Nimbus, your results will not be up to par.

[ Parent | on HN ]