Help me with some pointers???

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Can anyone give me a few leads on to what classes I should use to acomplish these tasks? All i need is a lead on the names.

I want to have a application with 3 seperate area’s in it, one for a filesystem view, one for a drag and ddrop area, and one for a viewer, where i can move graphics around in

I was thinking about using JFrame/JPanel… but then i wouldnt know how to begin implimentation in that…

any links/tips/refs would be very much appreciated!

Thanks
-Sequalit

#2

first of all go there:
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/reference.html - the best place to start with java

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/dnd/index.html - tutorial how to use drag and drop
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/index.html - swing tutorials, for your application gui
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/learn/example2.html - sample swing application
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/frame.html - here you will find how to make frames
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/io/index.html - how to read and write files

happy coding

#3

look at http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/components.html look though what kylix999 posted then look at it again.

also have a look at http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/treetable1/index.html and for treetable on java.sun.com depending on how you want to browse though your files.

if you use split panes I would recomend useing this line:

        UIManager.put("SplitPaneDivider.border", BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(0, 0, 0, 0));

it fastly cleans up your user interface.

#4

Thank you so much Kylix999, Mr_Light

This should help me out greatly!

another question… im not new to java, but im relativley inexperienced when it coems to the wealth of knowledge associated w/ java…

so when im looking for information on something, do i just do what i just did and ask, or is there a certain way you guys research it? or what hehe =)

thanks again for the links!

#5

you pick up bits an pieces along the way, ideling in #java at a random irc server and follow/research the more interesting problems. certain know-how is offcourse collected by simply doing stuff.