Swixml, XML-based domain-specific language for declaring Java Swing GUIs

“GUIs are described in XML documents, parsed at runtime, and rendered into javax.swing components.” [Apache License V.2.0] Wolf Paulus

<html> <head> .. <link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"/Styles/main.css\"/> <script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"/Scripts/global.js\"/> </head> <body> <div id=\"content\"> .. </div> .. </body> </html> Separation of Concerns Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?> <frame size=\"440,380\" title=\"Hello SWIXML World\"> <panel constraints=\"BorderLayout.NORTH\"> <label font=\"ARIAL-BOLD-16\" foreground=\"blue\" text=\"Hello World!\"/> </panel> <panel constraints=\"BorderLayout.SOUTH\"> <button text=\"Click Here\" /> </panel> </frame> Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

public class Foo { public Foo() throws Exception { new SwingEngine().render( \"xml/gui.xml\" ).setVisible( true ); } public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception { new Foo(); } } Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<frame size=\"440,380\" title=\"Hello SWIXML World\"> ... ... equivalent to ... JFrame frame = new JFrame(); frame.setSize( new Dimension( 440, 380 ) ); frame.setTitle( “Hello SWIXML World” ); Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

! applet ! label ! slider ! button ! list ! spinner ! buttongroup ! menu ! splitpane ! checkbox ! menubar ! tabbedpane ! checkboxmenuitem ! menuitem ! table Elements ! combobox ! optionpane ! tableheader ! component ! panel ! textarea ! desktoppane ! passwordfield ! textfield ! dialog ! popupmenu ! textpane ! editorpane ! progressbar ! togglebutton ! formattedtextfield ! radiobutton ! toolbar ! frame ! radiobuttonmenuitem ! tree ! hbox ! scrollpane ! vbox ! internalframe ! separator custom tags ! ... Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

public class Foo { public Foo() throws Exception { SwingEngine.getTaglib().registerTag( \"Calendar\", JCalendar.class ); new SwingEngine().render( \"xml/jcal.xml\" ).setVisible( true ); } public static void main( String[] args ) throws Exception { new Foo(); } } Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?> <frame title=\"Custom Tags\" size=\"400,260\"> <panel layout=\"BorderLayout\"> <panel background=\"white\" constraints=\"BorderLayout.NORTH\"> <label font=\"Comic Sans MS-BOLD-18\" foreground=\"black\"> Custom Components in Swixml ! ! </label> </panel> <calendar border=\"TitledBorder(JCalendar)\" initclass=\"java.util.Date\"/> </panel> </frame> Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<panel> <combobox action=”doSelect” initclass=”com.company.MyModel”/> </panel> .. equivalent to .. initclass() initclass( String s ) initclass.getInstance() JPanel pnl = new JPanel(); JComboBox cbx = new JComboBox(); cbx.setModel ( new com.company.MyModel() ); cbx.setAction( client.doSelect ); pnl.add( cbx ); Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<frame ... bundle=\"locale.myBundle\" locale=\"de\"> src ! com.company ! ! MyClass.java ! ... ! xml myGUI.xml \" ... ! locale myBundle_en.properties myBundle_fr.properties myBundle_de.properties ! Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

accelerator name disabledicons text Localized displayedmnemonics title icon titleat icons titles Attributes iconimage tooltiptext label tooltiptexts mnemonic ... custom attributes mnemonics org.swixml.Parser.LOCALIZED_ATTRIBUTES.add( \"myAttribute\" ) Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<label text=\"My blue label\" foreground=\"blue\" font=\"Verdana-BOLD-18”/> java.swing.Action java.awt.Insets javax.swing.border.Border javax.swing.KeyStroke java.awt.Color java.awt.LayoutManager java.awt.Dimension java.util.Locale Converters java.awt.Font java.awt.Point java.awt.Image java.awt.Rectangle javax.swing.Icon Primitives javax.swing.IconImage ... custom converters Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

public interface Converter { Object convert( Class type, Attribute attr, Localizer localizer ); Class convertsTo(); } ConverterLibrary.getInstance().register( myConverter ); Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?> <frame ... > <menubar> <menu text=\"File\"> <menuitem id=\"mi_save\" text=\"Save\" actioncommand=\"AC_SAVE\"/> .. <panel border=\"EtchedBorder\"> <button id=”btn1” . . . /> .. public class Foo implements ActionListener { private JButton btn1; // auto-assigned by Swixml private JMenuItem mi_save; // auto-assigned by Swixml public Foo() throws Exception { Container c = new SwingEngine( this ).render( \"xml/gui.xml\" ); mi_save.addActionListener( this ); .. Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?> <frame ... > <menubar> <menu text=\"File\"> <menuitem text=\"Open File\" action=\"open\"/> <separator/> .. </frame> public class Foo { public Action open = new AbstractAction() { // auto-bound public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e ) { // by Swixml ... } }; public Foo() throws Exception { new SwingEngine( this ).render( \"xml/gui.xml\" ).setVisible( true ); .. Copyright (C) 2007 Wolf Paulus

Swixml, XML-based domain-specific language for declaring Java Swing GUIs

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