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Cerium - Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:01 pm
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I would appreciate it if you could make a Java GUI for me. I could do it, but Im incredibly lazy and would much rather remove my left eye with a plastic spoon.

Let me know if you (or anyone reading this) are/is interested.

SpecShip - Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:05 am
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Maybe it's just me, but shouldn't you specify what the GUI is for and what kind of features it should have?

Doc Flabby - Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:35 am
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make it in free object pascal, will be 10 times faster to load up (important for a gui) + you wont need jre + it will be easy....
java sux for this kinda thing:P

http://www.freepascal.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/

pascal never died !!!

i'll can help make the gui. as long as its not in java

Dr Brain - Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:33 am
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I need details before I commit to anything. It's not out of the question though.

CypherJF - Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:37 am
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If Java GUI's are programmed correctly, utilizing frameworks as Foxtrot, etc., they can load as quickly as any other app.

BDwinsAlt - Sat Jun 17, 2006 11:38 am
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I made a java GUI once....

Cerium - Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:35 pm
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Goddamnit. Someone needs to write a browser that doesnt suck balls. Retyping this shit multiple times is getting annoying.

Anyway...
The GUI can be in any language as far as Im concerned, but since the library Im working on makes use of the serialization features in Java, it would probably be easier/better to stay with that.

What this would be for is a policy manager Im working on. The GUI would be relatively simple -- a single window (with probably a bunch of smaller input windows) that would have a tabbed panel container. There would be atleast 3 panels on the main window: Policies, Groups and Users, each panel having the ability to create, remove, modify and view its respective object.

Most of the IO functionality will be provided by the library Im working on, so the GUI will operate as a wrapper.

If I thnk of more details or anyone else has questions, Ill post responses later.

SpecShip - Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:11 am
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Quote:

Firefox can eat [filtered] and die. Firefox has leaked away my entire gig of ram and crashed to 100% CPU usage for the last time. I've officially converted.

IE works fine for me.

Doc Flabby - Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:14 am
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i just use opera.

CypherJF - Sun Jun 18, 2006 11:23 am
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Stop getting off-topic people!

Cerium - Sun Jun 18, 2006 12:43 pm
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Firefox has a terrible download manager that often makes me redownload 10mb+ files (which is unacceptable on dialup), and opera has the nasty habbit of going into some loop and getting stuck.

Anyway, it would appear from the fact no one has shown interest since my last post that I will end up having to do it myself. Bah.

Thanks anyway.

Dr Brain - Sun Jun 18, 2006 1:06 pm
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You've yet to post anything but the most vague details.

CypherJF - Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:06 pm
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Give brain a sketch of what you'd want.

Cerium - Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:33 am
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Thats essentially all there is too it -- its a very small application. All its designed to do is make it easy to manage policies when using this library instead of expecting every programmer develop some kind of gui for their end-users.

To recap:
-I need one window to view all current policies installed, and the values assigned to each user and/or group. The list will be provided to the gui as a map or collection, depending on the function used.

-One window to display groups created and users belonging to each group.

-One window to display the users created, and what groups they belong to.

Think of the windows local policy editor and the user/group editor. Its essentially the same concept.

Dr Brain - Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:58 am
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What is a policy? Where is the interface to your api defined?

Smong - Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:58 am
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Something like one of these?
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=100&hl=en&lr=&q=win+xp+local+policy&btnG=Search

Cerium - Mon Jun 19, 2006 2:10 pm
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Yeah, kinda like those. Except, youll be able to set policy values per-context (user or group). So the display should show the name of the policy, then a list of all subpolicies, contexts and values associated with it.

Brain: The API isnt complete, technically. Distort has been playing around with the first incarnation, ut Ive been changing stuff around almost every time I work on it...
Most everything can be input with a string. For custom policy classes that dont have a built-in string->object conversion, the policy class has the convertValue(String) method (as well as a conversionSupported() method), which will do the work for you.

Dr Brain - Mon Jun 19, 2006 3:05 pm
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It's not possible to write a GUI without some kind of underlaying API. Come back when you have that.

Cerium - Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:49 pm
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Heh. If you insist.