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Lesson #1: InvalidDnDOperationException Ruins Sanity

Michael Robinson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:35:08 +0000

A friend with whom I am currently working on a programming contract called me today to tell me that the latest build wasn’t working. At all. This irritated and confused me, as I hadn’t worked on that particular project for a week or so, and couldn’t remember having any issues with it. I booted into [...]

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Write Your Own Listener Interface (you know you want to)

Michael Robinson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:30:37 +0000

This tutorial was all I needed to quickly implement my listener: Listeners in Java It's clear, succinct and comprehensive. When you need to implement your custom listener interface, check it out.

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Java: repaint() Waking Nightmare

Michael Robinson — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:04:53 +0000

I wanted the little app I'm making to display a green tick or a red cross depending on whether the user had entered valid credentials. Simple? Yeah. Everything went really well, I extended a JPanel to handle the tick/cross display area (tickCross), got the POST code going, strung together the rest of the GUI elements. The problem was that tickCross.repaint() wasn't reliably repainting. about 30% of the time the image wouldn't be painted. The method was being called, but nothing was happening. I tried Google, re-read the related Sun Java docs and was reminded that: "repaint() does not actually paint. It calls the peer repaint which enqueues a request in some platform-dependent way inside the native GUI for a repaint." - MindProd. Great. My OS was deciding when I was allowed to draw. No related posts.

Strip /uXXXX From String and Replace it With the Correct Unicode Character

Michael Robinson — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 02:35:47 +0000

I discovered '/uXXXX' appearing where pretty unicode characters should be within my strings. The strings were to be compared to ... other strings, which would have the proper unicode characters, so I had to replace the '/uXXXX' in my strings. I couldn't find a class to do this, but found enough information to understand what needed to be done. The below function is what I came up with.

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Quaqua, OS X Application Bundle – Maven – Netbeans 6.1

Michael Robinson — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:05:45 +0000

To skip the introduction and scroll straight to the tutorial, click here. [Edit 2009: turns out I couldn't use Java for this program, it's on hold for now. I'll have to rewrite what I've done in ObjC so I can use Apple's libraries. Tutorial below still valid, however.] I’m currently developing a program to make [...]

Oops… So I installed a plugin, ported my project over into...
Lesson #1: InvalidDnDOperationException Ruins Sanity A friend with whom I am currently working on a...

Oops…

Michael Robinson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 01:48:28 +0000

So I installed a plugin, ported my project over into the new plugin, and *bang* it stopped working.

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Quaqua, OS X Application Bundle – Maven – Netbeans 6.1 To skip the introduction and scroll straight to the tutorial,...

RW Helper Update

Michael Robinson — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:41:11 +0000

Instead of using Cocoa to create my latest RW addition, Iâ€™ve decided to use Java.

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Lesson #1: InvalidDnDOperationException Ruins Sanity A friend with whom I am currently working on a...