Qt Jambi is a new and noteworthy alternative to Swing and Java 2D for developing rich, cross-platform desktop-application interfaces. In this article JavaWorld contributor Jeff Hanson introduces the ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

JavaFX has undergone a remarkable transformation since its initial introduction, evolving from an experimental UI scripting framework to a mature, feature-packed platform for developing user ...

Over the last two years, I spent some time developing a GUI application using Java Swing. The application was small, consisting of several classes in the MVC (Model-View-Controller) model, but was ...

In the first installment of this series, we outlined what it means to test graphical user interface (GUI) applications, and to what ends that testing is done. (See part 1.) Now we’ll apply those ...

Widget set Let’s recall the boundaries for this series. We’re looking at GUI toolkits applicable to a broad range of office automation and engineering tasks, including system administration, ...