Learning GUI's

[Glass Casket]

So I know Java well enough to find most of my own answers, but I'm still in search of a tutorial/video which will guide me through making my first GUI application. I have Eclipse with the Visual Editor and I know how to whip together a few panels together? But how can I take my GUI and make it talk ot my code?

Also, is there a guideline? Like, do you put all the GUI code in it's own class and simply initialize it in your main class? And I'll be developing under Linux.

Thanks.

[ess]

I think the best place to start learning GUI programming is the Swing Tutorial provided by Sun Microsystems.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/

You may also like to have a look at NetBeans...it has a very user friendly interface for building GUI apps.

Here is flash demo of using Netbeans to build Swing Applications
http://testwww.netbeans.org/kb/41/flash-matisse.html

If you are after a video tutorial...check out KeyStone
http://store.keystonelearning.com/detail.aspx?id=478

Cheers,
Ess

[KeZZeR]

I put my GUI code in a separate package with my project.

As for GUI coding, you simply hook library calls into the GUI code.

[ghell]

I always found this pretty useful when I was starting:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/ui/features/components.html

I don't know about any fancy GUI designers though, I hand code mine.

By the way the beauty of Java is that it doesn't matter that you are developing under linux (well, just don't use beryl [or rather emerald] if you are)

[Glass Casket]

Nice, thanks guys.