Archive for January, 2007

His and Hers

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Well its been a while, I can’t believe I have been working on iTunesPlayCountCopier(working title) for this long!

The progress I’ve had is really quite amazing for my first project, however my main sticking point has been the ui. I won’t lie, I did a massive refactoring of my code just so I could feel like I had made some progress after weeks of trying to get a JTree to display the way I wanted it to.

My problem being that after working on a Mac for the past 6 months and creating an app based on iTunes data, Java’s user interface just didn’t look as good as I wanted it to. So I decided to write my own Java table view to fix this problem, unsurprisingly named JTunesTable.

Finally I’ve turned a corner with Java SWING. I’ve made it do something pretty and I’m dead proud of it :)

So in true Matt Gemmell stylee I am going to release the source for all to take a look at, use and comment on, some time in the next week or so.

In the mean time here’s a screenshot of
JTunesTable.