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| 14:39 |
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aditsu |
talvdav: both awt and swt sound like bad ideas, you should go with swing |
| 14:40 |
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aditsu |
as for javafx... I don't know anybody who uses it :p |
| 14:40 |
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talvdav |
aditsu: yeah i meant swing, don't have my log on this maschine |
| 14:40 |
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talvdav |
i don't know what javafx is ^^ |
| 14:41 |
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talvdav |
im still new with java |
| 14:42 |
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aditsu |
ok, learn swing, it's the standard for GUI in java |
| 14:44 |
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talvdav |
ok thx aditsu |
| 14:44 |
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talvdav |
its a bit confusing, in my book they first show you awt |
| 14:44 |
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talvdav |
later swing but still with awt stuff |
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aditsu |
must be an old book |
| 14:44 |
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talvdav |
its programming in java 8... |
| 14:45 |
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talvdav |
from o'reily |
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aditsu |
:o |
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talvdav |
german version |
| 14:45 |
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aditsu |
strange |
| 14:45 |
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talvdav |
do you know some good resources for swing? |
| 14:45 |
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talvdav |
besides the oracle tutorials |
| 14:46 |
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aditsu |
awt is so java 1.1 |
| 14:46 |
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aditsu |
well, the sun (oracle) tutorials are good, I don't really know other resources |
| 14:47 |
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aditsu |
I have a book but it's for more advanced stuff |
| 14:47 |
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talvdav |
what book is that? |
| 14:47 |
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aditsu |
it's called "filthy rich clients" |
| 14:48 |
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aditsu |
http://www.amazon.com/Filthy-Rich-Clients-Developing-Applications/dp/0132413930 |
| 14:48 |
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talvdav |
thx aditsu |
| 14:51 |
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aditsu |
hmm, wikipedia does say "Swing is currently in the process of being replaced by JavaFX" ... but I wouldn't jump straight to javafx |
| 14:54 |
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pdurbin |
aditsu: I know a guy who uses javafx: http://irclog.greptilian.com/sourcefu/2013-10-16#i_31415 |
| 14:55 |
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aditsu |
pdurbin: interesting.. have you tried it? |
| 14:55 |
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pdurbin |
a little. built a 2048 clone at javaone |
| 14:56 |
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aditsu |
would you recommend skipping swing to learn it? |
| 14:56 |
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pdurbin |
https://github.com/jperedadnr/Game2048HOL |
| 14:56 |
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pdurbin |
I've never used swing. |
| 14:57 |
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aditsu |
:o |
| 14:57 |
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aditsu |
can you run that game in the browser? |
| 14:58 |
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pdurbin |
sure, the original version: http://gabrielecirulli.github.io/2048/ |
| 14:59 |
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aditsu |
no, lol, I mean the javafx one |
| 14:59 |
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aditsu |
btw, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16694948/swing-vs-javafx-for-desktop-applications |
| 15:04 |
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aditsu |
it so happens that I want to write a new GUI application; I started today with about 20 lines of swing code... but now I'm thinking of trying javafx instead |
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aditsu |
to see what it's all about :p |
