Java: More GUI Stuff!

So it turns out, in discovering and using the Netbeans GUI creator, I skipped like, a bajillion pages in the textbook, which are all about bringing up buttons and setting up events, and the proper way to put things together (A jFrame being the bottom level, to hold everything, then a jPanel for each section on the Frame and so on.). So uh. I'm kinda out of the GUI chapter, save a couple of examples!

I guess we'll do those (its some relatively cool stuff), until someone in the comments section has a specific request, or we can just move on to multi-threading and such, which will be the final thing to learn about.

Anyway, for now, we can have a simple text editor! Let's start off by designing it, visually.

Java: Core GUI Concepts II - Example Program (The easy-ish way: Visuals)

Okay, I think I got this worked out! Let's have a shitload of screenshots!

Let's start off by making a new file in Netbeans. But instead of the regular Java file, scroll down to the Swing GUI Frame, then select JFrame. This will, predictably, give you a JFrame to work with. Fun times.

Java: GUI Introduction

Well, the voters have spoken! GUIs first it is. Which is good, I didn't have much of a stomach for a day of gaming. Ended up going for a "jog". Turns out I'm much less fit than I remember! So I just played Men of War:Vietnam before a whole bunch of TF2 (Which I also suck at).

Feel free to read the TL;DR: sections at the end of sections to get the gist of it and move on. :D I might do them more often, just 'cause I know my posts are often long and could be summed up more concisely.

Anywho, let's get on with the GUI stuff. As most of you know, the user interface of a program is what the user sees and interacts with when trying to use a program. There are two fundamentally different types of user interface. Thee's the command line interface, which is how we'd be using our programs so far, if they weren't processed in Netbeans: