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Thursday, March 1. 2007
JCalendar Date Chooser Widgets for Swing
A date chooser is a frequent element needed when building Swing applications. I have been using JCalendar widgets for my needs. They have an excellent selection of widgets to fit most needs, including separate month and year choosers for cases where you don't need whole dates (like credit card months and years) licensed under the LGPL open source license.
These work well with Netbeans. Make a JCalendar library using the
Library Manager, then add the library to your Swing widgets palette. Use Tools, Palette Manager, Swing/AWT Components, then click on Add from Library to allow drag and drop of these widgets in Matisse.
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Have you ever tried the eclipse VEP. I understand it is not as nice as Matisse, but I never used it.
No, I haven't tried VEP. I switched to Netbeans when 4.1 came out as I have never had much luck with Eclipse Java EE plugins (long story) whereas Netbeans came with extensive web application support built-in. I started using Matisse as I had already been using Netbeans. It is so easy to make Swing applications with Matisse, I am finding them useful in more situations than I would have expected.