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Subject: Re: Baseline GUI Prototype?
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:45:48 -0800
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On 11/16/2011 9:07 AM, Davej wrote:
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> Ok, I've written command line code that way, but surely you don't
> begin a desktop GUI project with nothing but an empty Main class. What
> do you start with? Is there a standardized prototype? Thanks.


Yes, I do.  GUI classes get built fast enough using Matisse, the GUI 
builder in NetBeans.  And I haven't found any way get a "standardized 
prototype" that includes the controllers and models that I need, so why 
bother?

If you think you can get that thing to work, you're doing better than I. 
  I'd appreciate any insights you might have as to why it's better.  But 
I've definitely written small GUI apps and it's little trouble to use 
Matisse and just make the panels and frames you want.