{"id":10592,"date":"2014-11-14T05:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=10592"},"modified":"2014-11-14T05:04:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T18:04:20","slug":"java-swing-line-graph-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/java-swing-line-graph-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Java Swing Line Graph Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Java Swing Line Graph Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Sort of miss Java Applets, myself, as they were once “the thing”<\/i> for some people writing code for the web. You got used to paint()<\/i> and repaint()<\/i> methods because you could imagine, word for word, codewise, what was happening.<\/p>\n

So here is another tutorial that uses Swing<\/a> functionality in Java to create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) desktop program on a Mac laptop (but same code may well work, compiled on a Windows laptop (the same way)) that harkens back to those Java Applet ideas drawing graphics (we even use “repaint()”<\/i> … yay) that is a simple Java JFrame<\/a> object, graphics for a Line Graph, accepting co-ordinate input from the (Linux) command line arguments or taking this interactively via the JOptionPane<\/a> showInputDialog() method, and then, optionally, later you can add to your Line Graph via mouse clicks understood as vertices of the one continuous line you are creating … in other words, not scribble, that would require different logic, but not that much more difficult or involved logic actually … would just involve some intervention with the onmousemove<\/i> event function.<\/p>\n

Some of the points of interest, and you may want to see our previous relevant Java Swing JTree Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below, as well, are:<\/p>\n