Saturday, August 12, 2017

How to Check Java Documentation of a Class in Netbeans IDE

Recently I have downloaded Netbeans IDE 7.0 to learn its GUI builder Matisse and I was impressed with the changes I saw in the Netbeans from my last use of it in 2007. I was a hardcore Netbeans fan when I was developing mobile application using J2ME and Netbeans integrated environment with WTK, Profiler, and Network Monitor just rocks and on top of that they had conditional compilation feature based on type of platform you   were working like you could maintain your code easily even if you are using device-specific libraries e.g. Nokia UI library etc. Anyway, those were the things of past, what attracted me is the Javadoc feature of Netbeans. Though this feature might have existed long back I have just started using it. Earlier to see Javadoc I used to Google and then go to Sun (now Oracle) website to view Javadoc of any class. While playing with Netbeans I discovered that you can easily Javadoc in the Netbeans IDE itself no need to visit the web.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Java swing tutorial: Learning JList with code example

In this java swing JList tutorial, we will learn important properties and function of JList while working on a task with examples. In my opinion best way to learn swing is to actually doing the task and so I designed this tutorial around the task. We will start with a simple example and proceed with more  complex one step by step adding new functionality and in the course, we will learn JList both concept and API. In this first example, we need to implement a list which shows names of companies in sorted order. 
Before start coding let's see some fundamentals of JList:

Thursday, August 3, 2017

How to revert back to Windows 8.1 from Windows 10 Update?

If you remember, I have updated to Windows 10 yesterday and blog about the problem I was facing with respect to clarity of text and blurriness on Chrome and Firefox browser e.g. text was turned white to some places and it wasn't pleasant working in the browser. There were few other issues, which prompted me to revert back to Windows 8.1 update, which was the version I was running before upgrading to Windows 10.  Though Windows 10 has lots of good feature in terms of improved search, security and start menu, I didn't adjust it well. Since I don't have time to play around different visual settings and other things, I decided to roll back to Windows 8 version.