small app ideas
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- toastie0
eclipse is an abstracted IDE, it was developed to use with Java and is written in Java, but there are plugins to use it for pretty much every language out there.
- oBeseLilNinja0
another guess - just using the eclipse API?
- oBeseLilNinja0
lol what is it used for then? is it for compiling native to the machine?
- toastie0
yeah, you dont even have to use it for java :P in fact, most people dont
- oBeseLilNinja0
can i use it with j2se and j2me installed without causing problems? im downloading it now :)
- toastie0
eclipse is the bee's knees.
- oBeseLilNinja0
never used it but i will take a look at swt if i can use it in notepad - looks like i have to use eclipse which i have never used before,
- toastie0
im using SWT actually, which has a nice little tray class, though it doesnt work in OSX unfortunately. im gonna see if i can find a way around that.
- oBeseLilNinja0
so how you gonna do a the interface, just a basic window or some windowless graphic like a widget? and if a basic window gui are u gonna a layout manager if so which one, i hate java gui programming and never can decide on which is a decent layout manager and always end up using a absolute layout manager
some nice task bar APIs
http://jeans.studentenweb.org/ja…
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- toastie0
i mostly use C/C++ but this is gonna be in Java
- oBeseLilNinja0
toastie what language you programming in?
- -kappa-0
OK, he's another one.
A mini little app that you can Add Clients details, and projects associated with them, and track hours of all projects, then spit out a fairly customizable invoice, maybe some graphs.
- canton0
He wants to learn how built cross platform applications, not build one for your own use.
- liquid0
there are already tons of alarm clocks out there that play music etc...
I like the bookmark tool....
- toastie0
cool.. its the top idea so far
- oBeseLilNinja0
go with the alarm clock idea cos i would use it and im sure others would aswell
- toastie0
anyway, you're getting sidetracked, i still need some ideas!
- jox0
Hahah
- personality_son0
Yaw yaw yaw, whass krakeen neegga
- personality_son0
Sounds more like an english to dutch translator