Wow. Quite the storm! Oh well.
I guess I should clarify a bit.
I _am_ using monkeybars (and therefore NetBeans) to create my GUI. =20=
It's
pretty good. My second choice would be Glade(Is there a way for =20
Glade 3
to be used?). It's still a little hit or miss though in NetBeans. I
put some controls down and the rest _move_ ... even after I put a =20
panel
in. Of course it could be that I'm an idiot and I don't know how to
make a GUI with it.
The more I use it the more I'll get used to
those quirks.
By default in Netbeans, all panels, frames, dialogs, and other =20
containers are set to "Free Design", which is the GroupLayout. =20
GroupLayout is very quirky, and takes some time to learn. For forms of =20=
any complexity, you may want to use a different layout (right click on =20=
the container in question, and you can set the new layout). If you're =20=
looking for something akin to Visual Studio's absolute layout, you can =20=
set the layout to null (Null Layout). This isn't cross-platform =20
friendly, and the form won't move/stretch when the user goes to resize =20=
it, but at least it'll get you going. You can also isolate some =20
components by putting them in another panel, and different panels, =20
even if nested, can have their own layout. Netbeans also has a handy =20
feature where you can select one or more components, and right click, =20=
and select "Enclose In..." and select a JPanel.
GroupLayout does some really cool things, but sometimes it's like =20
working with a mule. It's very tricky.
I also don't care if the GUI itself is written in Ruby. The GUI =20
could
be written in LOGO for all I care. I just want to write an app, =20
click a
button and have some Ruby code execute behind it.
Q: If I write a swing GUI in NetBeans can I then copy that somehow =20
to a
ruby project(using Monkeybars somehow)? Or do I have to start from
scratch every time. I=92m also not entirely sure how to create a =20
project
with _two_ or more forms.
We've got a whole more than two forms going in some of our projects:
http://www.happycamperstudios.com/monkeybars/charlotte interface.png
I'm not exactly sure what's going on here, but I'd gather that you =20
created a Ruby project. Unfortunately, Netbeans doesn't support a true =20=
JRuby project, where you can freely dance between JRuby and Java. The =20=
next best thing is to make your project a Java project. Here you can =20
have Ruby files but also Java files and forms. You'll need a =20
Main.java, which kicks off JRuby, as well as the JRuby complete jar. =20
We've got a tutorial on setting a lot of this stuff up in our =20
tutorials section:
http://monkeybars.rubyforge.org/tutorials.html
My GUI first app is either going to be a pared down media library/grep
tool for people who like to download (open source of course!) shows =20=
and
ask themselves, =93Do I download that show? Or do I have it already?=94 = =20
I'm
using JRuby, Monkeybars, NetBeans and Postgres. I'm not too sure =20
about
Activerecord yet and I find SQL rather trivial so I'm accessing the db
directly.
We have a couple of internal Monkeybars project that need their own =20
local database. We used Derby + ActiveRecord for this. While I didn't =20=
work a ton on these projects myself, I know we'd be more than happy to =20=
share what we did to get it working. Derby is SQLite in Java, so it's =20=
just a file that you can load as your database, and there's no need =20
for anyone to set up a full on database server on their machine.
