Project UITools

While Java Swing has the nice advantage of providing a flexible cross-platform user interface library, it does have its shortcomings. Java Swing is what I would classify as a "medium-level" application framework: it provides more functionality than the original Macintosh Toolkit (which didn't have any way of breaking up a window into views), but doesn't provide the advanced application framework you would expect in something such as Cocoa or MFC.

This library attempts to resolve that shortcoming by adding the following on top of Swing to make UI development easier:

• Application Event Management
• Model/View/Controller Framework
• Dialog Construction Support new
• Miscellaneous OS-specific Utilities

My hope is that these various utilities help to close the missing gap between Swing as a collection of views written in Java, and a good cross-platform application framework which handles more than just dividing a window up into components and filling in those views with visual controls that match the look and feel of the current platform.

License

Copyright 2007 William Woody, All Rights Reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

• Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
• Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
• Neither the name of Chaos In Motion nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Contact William Woody at woody@alumni.caltech.edu or at woody@chaosinmotion.com. Chaos In Motion is at http://www.chaosinmotion.com

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