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Posted: September 23, 2009 07:51 pm  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
      IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8    | one of my IST classes this semester is a JAVA programming class. We're using the program Eclipse to make stoof. Our big project, which is really the only assignment of the semester, is to make an application with a GUI that lets you sort feeds by categories, dates, number of hits, etc. Our idea is to have the gui show as like a web of bubbles(pic coming later) that interact with your mouse, meaning they float toward the mouse when you get near them, zoom in to the next layer of categories when you click them, glow on mouseover, etc. we've already got the basic understanding of how to make the whole RSS thing with sorting and all that work, but our biggest problem is implementing the GUI. Does anyone have experience with JAVA guis that can help me figure out how to make images interact with the mouse in ways such as floating toward it when the mouse gets near, zooming(or appearing/disappearing) on click, and having lines(shown in the picture below) sort of anchored to other images and follow them as they move around? this must be perfect, and it must be epic. here's a concept diagram:  I want it pretty much to work like that, and then when you click on the actual bubble it will zoom in and center on it and the bubbles related to that will stay move around it as well, then any layers of bubbles above that will disappear off the screen and goto a list or something so you can get them back later. ANY help at all with this would be greatly appreciated. its gonna be a big project and i need all i can get. -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=-  W I N N I N G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 24, 2009 03:38 am | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 | Sigs, Java... is there anything you CAN'T do?  --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 24, 2009 09:59 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 |
All human beings are capable of anything they put their minds to, so no. -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=- W I N N I N G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 25, 2009 12:18 am | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 IRC Nickname: Matt|Georgio9 Group: Emeritus Posts: 706 Member No.: 94 Joined: January 3, 2008 Total Events Attended: 0 | Ok first of all, do you have to use Eclipse? I've used both Eclipse and NetBeans and I strongly prefer to use NetBeans for a Java IDE. Not really much I can say about making GUI's in Java. I'm assuming you're using the IDE's built in GUI designer tool to generate the code for you? I've only made a GUI by hand and it's ALOT of code. GUI's are tough to make. What seems logical and intuitive to you is usually not the same for others. If you want the high marks, you have to make it simple enough that someone can start using the program to its potential right away. Have your friends who aren't programmers pilot your GUI and use their feedback. --------------------   | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 25, 2009 02:53 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | were allowed to use netbeans too  -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=- W I N N I N G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 |
I want to see you fly without some sort of technological aid. -------------------- [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 25, 2009 04:17 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: Samurai-JM Group: Emeritus Posts: 3204 Member No.: 117 Joined: January 11, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 |
technology is allowed, using tools is what makes us human remember? but once we evolve a bit and gain control over atomic particles with our minds im sure flight and superpowers will come with time. -------------------- -=}¤- Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici -¤{=- W I N N I N G | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Posted: September 25, 2009 04:19 pm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 |
Meh true. I just wish people had started trying to evolve a few thousand years ago so we could fly now  -------------------- [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Java RSS App w/ GUI, epic project underway