Tampa JUG wrapup
My Groovy/SwingXBuilder preso, though not devoid of technical difficulties, did go better the second time around. I found yet another projector that didn't like my Ubuntu setup. Luckily, I made sure to have everything on both partitions so I had to settle with using Windows. Elliott Murphy, whom I met at BarCamp Orlando and works for Canonical, assured me that Gutsy has much better support for projectors. It's less than a month away.
Not constrained as much by the time and speaking to a Java audience, I was able to delve more into details than I could on Sunday. There were about 20 people in attendance and they had lots of good questions. Here are the answers to the questions I said I needed to check on:
Q: Can you put more than one component on a line in a builder? I was correct in saying that you could but you would need semicolons. In doing so, you reduce the readability of the construct and why would you want to do that anyway?
Q: How do you construct a MultiSplitPane that divides vertically instead of horizontally? I advised that if there wasn't an example on the Codehaus website, I would put one up shortly. There was already an example on the Groovy website showing how to do this.[Here] As the writer of that content, I am slightly embarrassed that I didn't remember it was there.
Demos: There was a PMetrics demo using SwingXBuilder, JFreeChart, and SwingX-WS for web services that I demoed at the JUG meeting and showed screenshots at BarCamp. I will discuss in it in a forthcoming entry. The Painter Demo and Calendar Demo are available in webstart format elsewhere on this blog and the source is in the swingxbuilder module at The Codehaus.