Java-GNOME 2.10 GNOME Tutorial

Jeffrey Morgan

The Java-GNOME Project

<kuzman@gmail.com>

This tutorial is an introduction to the Java bindings for the GNOME desktop environment. The intended audience is a developer that wants to develop a GNOME application in Java.

Table of Contents

Credits and Copyrights

1. Introduction

2. Let's Get Started

2.1. My First GNOME Application

2.1.1. GTK+
2.1.2. GNOME
2.1.3. Explanation of the code

3. Adding Menus

3.1. Event Handling
3.2. Adding menus to our example

4. Toolbars and Statusbars

4.1. Toolbars
4.2. Statusbars

5. Layout Management

5.1. Boxes

5.2. Tables

5.3. Using Layout Managers

5.3.1. Box
5.3.2. Table

6. Containers

6.1. Alignment
6.2. Frame
6.3. AspectFrame
6.4. Paned
6.5. ScrolledWindow
6.6. Notebook
6.7. ButtonBox

7. Non-Visual Classes

7.1. Config
7.2. Sound
7.3. Url

8. The Widgets

8.1. Gtk Entry
8.2. CheckButton
8.3. Label
8.4. ComboBox
8.5. DateEdit
8.6. About
8.7. TreeView
8.8. TextView

List of Tables
3-1. UIInfo
3-2. GnomeUIInfoType
3-3. GnomeUIPixmapType
5-1. AttachOptions
6-1. ShadowType

List of Figures
5-1. A 2 X 2 table grid

List of Examples
2-1. First.java
2-2. Program.initGnomeUI()
2-3. App constructor
2-4. Widget.show()
2-5. Gtk.main()
3-1. Second.java - first take
3-2. Second.java - second take
3-3. second.dat
4-1. Third.java - first take
4-2. Third.java - second take
5-1. Fourth.java - variable declaration
5-2. Fourth.java - constructor
5-3. Fourth.java - createView()
5-4. Fourth.java - buildBoxPage()
5-5. Fourth.java - buildBoxPage()
6-1. Alignment.java - Alignment
6-2. TestGTK.java - Frame
6-3. aspectframe.java - AspectFrame
6-4. Paned.java - Paned
6-5. TestGTK.java - ScrolledWindow
6-6. Notebook.java - Notebook
6-7. TestGTK.java - ButtonBox
7-1. WriteConfig.java - Config
7-2. ReadConfig.java - Config
7-3. Sound.java - Sound
7-4. UrlTest.java - Url
8-1. EntryDemo.java - Gtk Entry
8-2. CheckButtonExample.java - CheckButton
8-3. Label with Markup

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