| Newbie-No gui tools/palette [message #753501] |
Thu, 27 October 2011 09:52  |
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Long time (3+ years) developer for the dark side (vs2005) and now want to try white magic.
Downloaded and ran indigo on my win7 machine but unsure how to get GUI tools and plugins to work. I've installed several plugins, (google's gwt and swt) but I don't see pushbuttons, etc nor a 'form' to mount them on. When I googled, I don't see plug-in project as a project type. What am I doing wrong?
I did manage to compile and run the swt sample that generated a window with "hello world" as a title.
Also, since I'm a database, client-server developer, what is a good library (or api or whatever) to use to access SqlServer or Oracle?
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| Re: Newbie-No gui tools/palette [message #753538 is a reply to message #753501] |
Thu, 27 October 2011 11:24  |
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On 27-Oct-11 07:52, Pete wrote:
> Long time (3+ years) developer for the dark side (vs2005) and now want
> to try white magic.
> Downloaded and ran indigo on my win7 machine but unsure how to get GUI
> tools and plugins to work. I've installed several plugins, (google's gwt
> and swt) but I don't see pushbuttons, etc nor a 'form' to mount them on.
> When I googled, I don't see plug-in project as a project type. What am I
> doing wrong?
> I did manage to compile and run the swt sample that generated a window
> with "hello world" as a title.
>
> Also, since I'm a database, client-server developer, what is a good
> library (or api or whatever) to use to access SqlServer or Oracle?
For the second question, there's (from primitive to sophisticated) JDBC,
JPA, Hibernate, Spring w/Hibernate.
Coding in JDBC will mean mostly separate statements depending on
database targetted while at the other end, most statements will work for
both MS SQL and Oracle.
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| Re: Newbie-No gui tools/palette [message #754815 is a reply to message #754811] |
Fri, 04 November 2011 09:16 |
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I'm not sure if I loaded the wrong libraries, but I deleted the folder and unzipped again. Got into windowbuilder and VOILA! I have gui tools.
Even got it to connect to my Sql Server db but have yet to figure out how to return a value into a control.
This doesn't seem to work:
con = DriverManager.getConnection(connectionUrl);
String SQL = "select name from COMPANY where CO_NBR=53;";
stmt = con.createStatement();
rs = stmt.executeQuery(SQL);
tbValue.setText( rs.getString(0) );
tbValue is a javax.swing.JTextField
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