{"id":120,"date":"2015-04-19T12:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T18:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T20:52:04","slug":"diving-into-java-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacobncalvert.com\/blog-archive\/2015\/04\/19\/diving-into-java-updated\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving into Java (updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been heavily exposed to programming in Java, though I&#8217;m an Android person. I recently began reading online course material about programming in Java, and specifically, programming with the Swing GUI library.<\/p>\n<p>I had a need for a simple application to store information about ICs and other electronic components I have in my possession, so I thought I&#8217;d give Java a try! After figuring out Eclipse&#8217;s designer windows and GUI editing helpers, I was able to create an application that is usable and backed by a SQLite3 database. My application is cheesily named &#8216;ICDB&#8217;, short for IC Database. I plan on putting the source on GitHub in a little while, and I will post it here as well. Some of the neat features I&#8217;ve been able to implement are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Search as you type &#8211; results come up in the main table as you type a term into the search box<\/li>\n<li>Application wide key bindings &#8211; ctrl-N brings up the &#8216;New Part&#8217; window, ctrl-M maximizes things, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Export to Text and CSV<\/li>\n<li>Add, edit, delete functionality for the database<\/li>\n<li>Sortable rows in the main table &#8211; even after searching, you can sort the subset of items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From my limited experience, I like Java. Some things I miss from C++ like multiple-inheritance, but for the most part I can make do with Interfaces, Abstract classes and the other OOP features.\u00a0<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong><br \/>\nI have put\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jacobcalvert\/ICDB\">the source on Github.<\/a>\u00a0The pre-built JAR and the dependency JAR is there if you&#8217;d like to build it yourself! Documentation is soon to come!<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have never been heavily exposed to programming in Java, though I&#8217;m an Android person. I recently began reading online course material about programming in Java, and specifically, programming with the Swing GUI library. I had a need for a simple application to store information about ICs and other electronic components I have in my possession, so I thought I&#8217;d give Java a try! 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