http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ Mindsilver support and feedback en-US Thu, 09 Sep 2010 04:29:13 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/search.php http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/system-error-occured#post-36 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:08:46 +0000 acarlow 36@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>I, too am having this issue on Ubuntu 10.04 (64-bit). Liked the demos and the promise that this tool may have, but I'm wondering about the support at this point since it's been a month since Brendon said he would look at this.</p> <p>Is GUIDE being actively supported and improved? </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/guide-10-experiences-personal-licence#post-35 Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:06:25 +0000 CroniD 35@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hello everyone.</p> <p>Some days ago i have seen that im able to use guide for personal or open source projects free. That a good decision, i think. Thanks for that. :)</p> <p>But i noticed some things ...</p> <p>1. Guide freeze if i want to see my result (after clicking on the eye button).<br /> -&gt; im a win7 pro 32bit user with java6u21</p> <p>2. I wanted to use SwingX comp. and SubstanceLAF. If i add the jars to classpath and press close, it takes some time and the ui freeze. I think guide wants to load the comp. for drag'n'drop experiences, yes? Maybe you can show a simple progressbar to show the user what is happening.</p> <p>3. I tried to build a gui like mozilla thunderbird (only the look), but it is really hard to tell guide "that panel is the statusbar" or "this comp. should go from a to b". I know that this is a problem related to layoutmanagers, but i tried all of them. ;)</p> <p>4. I wanted to create a new palette that contains the SwingX comp. Why is the dialog for that in the project view? I think if someone wants to design gui he/she dont want to add all needed jars for each project again. An option for a cross-project way to add external jars for every project would be nice. Same for palettes.</p> <p>5. There is no option to set standard properties of the comp. in these palettes. :-/</p> <p>6. If i want to delete a comp., but this comp. is hidden by some other comp. i wanted to do so in property dialog of the parent comp., but guide tells me, that it cant delete it. Why?</p> <p>With best regards<br /> CroniD </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/system-error-occured#post-34 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:19:19 +0000 apupeikis 34@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Thanks. Guide is a nice tools and I'm little confused with this problem. If you'll need any additional info or full log, I always glad to help. May be you'll just introduce a capability to change L&amp;F from Guide's settings? </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/system-error-occured#post-33 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:37:42 +0000 brendon 33@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi. Sorry for the delay ingetti g back to you, buy I'm the one who looks at forum post and I'm on holiday at the moment. This looks to be and error within the Gtk look and feel. This doesn't mean we won't fix the problem, we can get Guide to work around the problem. I'll have a look at this and hopefully have a solution in a few days time. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/system-error-occured#post-32 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:07:11 +0000 apupeikis 32@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>I've got a some problem with just open an sample application in the latest guide release.<br /> The application Frame in guide was not opened and I've got an System Error in the Messages area.<br /> My OS Linux Ubuntu 10.04. And here is the latest info from the log -<br /> <pre><code>2010-07-04 23:51:57,127 - INFO - main - guide.ui.Main - Guide Started 2010-07-04 23:51:59,619 - INFO - AWT-EventQueue-1 - guide.b.b - Checking for updates. Current version: 1.0 2010-07-04 23:52:04,804 - INFO - AWT-EventQueue-1 - guide.ui.c - Opening design: myPackage.HelloWorld.create() 2010-07-04 23:52:05,008 - INFO - AWT-EventQueue-1 - guide.ui.u - Reading design: src/myPackage/HelloWorld.java, ProjectClassLoader-0 2010-07-04 23:52:05,112 - ERROR - AWT-EventQueue-1 - USERLOG - System Error java.lang.NullPointerException at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.Metacity.getInt(Metacity.java:799) at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.Metacity.calculateButtonSize(Metacity.java:969) at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.Metacity$TitlePaneLayout.minimumLayoutSize(Metacity.java:688) at com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.Metacity$TitlePaneLayout.preferredLayoutSize(Metacity.java:673) at java.awt.Container.preferredSize(Container.java:1599) at java.awt.Container.getPreferredSize(Container.java:1584) at javax.swing.JComponent.getPreferredSize(JComponent.java:1636) at java.awt.BorderLayout.preferredLayoutSize(BorderLayout.java:702) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicDesktopIconUI.getPreferredSize(BasicDesktopIconUI.java:135) at javax.swing.JComponent.getPreferredSize(JComponent.java:1634) at javax.swing.JInternalFrame$JDesktopIcon.updateUI(JInternalFrame.java:2216) at javax.swing.JInternalFrame$JDesktopIcon.&lt;init&gt;(JInternalFrame.java:2145) at javax.swing.JInternalFrame.&lt;init&gt;(JInternalFrame.java:331) at guide.ui.h$j.&lt;init&gt;(SourceFile:414) at guide.ui.h.setDesign(SourceFile:96) at guide.ui.u.read(SourceFile:113) at guide.ui.c.readDesign(SourceFile:573) at guide.ui.c.editInvocable(SourceFile:468) at guide.ui.c.init(SourceFile:200) at guide.ui.WorkspaceView.a(SourceFile:214) at guide.ui.m.openSampleProject(SourceFile:221) at guide.ui.k.openSampleProject(SourceFile:103) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at sun.reflect.misc.Trampoline.invoke(MethodUtil.java:37) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor1.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at sun.reflect.misc.MethodUtil.invoke(MethodUtil.java:244) at java.beans.EventHandler.invokeInternal(EventHandler.java:463) at java.beans.EventHandler.access$000(EventHandler.java:261) at java.beans.EventHandler$1.run(EventHandler.java:411) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.beans.EventHandler.invoke(EventHandler.java:409) at $Proxy0.actionPerformed(Unknown Source) at javax.swing.AbstractButton.fireActionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:1995) at javax.swing.AbstractButton$Handler.actionPerformed(AbstractButton.java:2318) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.fireActionPerformed(DefaultButtonModel.java:387) at javax.swing.DefaultButtonModel.setPressed(DefaultButtonModel.java:242) at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicButtonListener.mouseReleased(BasicButtonListener.java:236) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(Component.java:6263) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(JComponent.java:3267) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6028) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2041) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4630) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2099) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(Container.java:4574) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(Container.java:4238) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(Container.java:4168) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2085) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2478) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4460) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:599) at guide.u.dispatchEvent(SourceFile:212) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:269) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:184) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:174) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:169) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:161) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:122) 2010-07-04 23:52:05,956 - INFO - AWT-EventQueue-1 - guide.M - Writing file: /home/apupeikis/.guide/SampleProject/src/myPackage/HelloWorld.java</code></pre> <p>I don't know what's happening, but this message type in log is cyclic.<br /> Whenever I try to create my application from scratch the same error come up. Please, help.... </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/guide-version-1-released#post-31 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:52:29 +0000 brendon 31@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi. Thanks to everyone for the beta feedback. GUIDE has now been released.</p> <p>The Mindsilver Team </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/it-is-impossible-to-find-this-site-via-google#post-30 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:21:39 +0000 brendon 30@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Yes. You are 100% correct. </p> <p>But we love the name GUIDE, partly because it's an acronym while not being a backronym. And the logo sucks. Our application icon has grown on me, but for some reason it doesn't integrate well into the web site look and feel. I did at one point engage the services of a graphic designer, but I obviously failed to express my desires specifically enough as nothing has yet stood out to the point where i know "this is it!".</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Brendon. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/it-is-impossible-to-find-this-site-via-google#post-29 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:04:18 +0000 S.Statsenko 29@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>What about another logo? :) </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/use-extra-components-jar#post-28 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:03:04 +0000 brendon 28@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>By the way, we received an error report from a Spanish locale around a similar time to your post. We did not get enough information to discover the cause of the exception. Was that you? Can you contact me at brendon&gt;at&lt;mindsilver.com </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/use-extra-components-jar#post-27 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:02:09 +0000 encaputxat 27@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Thanks a lot for the explanation, macwidgets is a great work :)<br /> This night I have to try your idea, seems good! </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/use-extra-components-jar#post-26 Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:53:25 +0000 brendon 26@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Normally, GUIDE can do this without any problems. For example, using a MigCalander directly from a Jar file is possible. But it's a bit more tricky with MacWidgets.</p> <p>I'm a big fan of Ken's work on MacWidgets. But aside from creating a beautiful Mac experience in Swing, he also decided to take on Swing's component pattern. Normally in Swing, when you want to create a custom component, you extend from JComponent and override some methods to customize the behaviour. GUIDE seamless handles these types of extensions.</p> <p>MacWidgets takes a different approach. For example, SourceList doesn't extend anything. It isn't even a real component; rather, it contains a component. I think what the author was trying to achieve was to expose only the API that was relevant to source lists.</p> <p>Unfortunately, this pattern is so unusual in Swing that it's difficult for GUIDE to support it like most components. There are two ways you can use MacWidgets in GUIDE, but I'm going to focus on the best way. Normally (the way I use GUIDE), I create components from the palette and, if I need to, I can inject references to them in my controller via setter methods. But in this case, we do it the other way around. Our controller will create the MacWidget and expose the component through a getter.</p> <p>For example:</p> <p><code><br /> import com.explodingpixels.macwidgets.SourceList;<br /> import com.explodingpixels.macwidgets.SourceListCategory;<br /> import com.explodingpixels.macwidgets.SourceListItem;</p> <p>import javax.swing.*;</p> <p>public class Controller {<br /> private SourceList sourceList = new SourceList();</p> <p> public Controller() {<br /> SourceListCategory categoryA = new SourceListCategory("Network");<br /> SourceListCategory categoryB = new SourceListCategory("Local");</p> <p> sourceList.getModel().addCategory(categoryA);<br /> sourceList.getModel().addItemToCategory(new SourceListItem("Printer"), categoryA);<br /> sourceList.getModel().addItemToCategory(new SourceListItem("Router"), categoryA);<br /> sourceList.getModel().addItemToCategory(new SourceListItem("FileServer"), categoryA);</p> <p> sourceList.getModel().addCategory(categoryB);<br /> sourceList.getModel().addItemToCategory(new SourceListItem("Home"), categoryB);<br /> sourceList.getModel().addItemToCategory(new SourceListItem("Music"), categoryB);<br /> sourceList.getModel().addItemToCategory(new SourceListItem("Pictures"), categoryB);</p> <p> }</p> <p> public JComponent getSourceListComponent() {<br /> return sourceList.getComponent();<br /> }<br /> }<br /> </code></p> <p>You can then drag the SourceList's component directly out of the controller and lay it out as a normal component. Please note that GUIDE is meant to prevent you from editing these components, but I've just noticed that it's doing it in this case. Bug fix to follow. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/use-extra-components-jar#post-25 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:59:18 +0000 encaputxat 25@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Im using macwidgets, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/macwidgets/</a>. Great osx components for java.</p> <p>Its possible to add theses components to palette?<br /> preview will work if I manually add components to the form?</p> <p>thx for all, Im a student from Spain and Im really fan of guide </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/how-to-bind-controller-property-into-menu-items#post-24 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:51:24 +0000 brendon 24@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>More information would be very useful. After dropping a property onto a menu item, you should get a popup binding dialog. Do you see that? And does your controller have property change support? Is it a property with just a getter, or does it have a setter as well?</p> <p>What would also help is attempting do it again, and then selecting Help -&gt; Report problem. This will send us the log file which would tell us if any exception occurred.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Brendon. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/how-to-bind-controller-property-into-menu-items#post-23 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:41:10 +0000 lipingt 23@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>tried to drop controller into menu or menuItem without luck. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/final-beta-released#post-22 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:00:57 +0000 brendon 22@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>A huge thanks to everyone who provided feedback and bug reports for our last beta release. We've spent months integrating as much of that feedback as possible and are ready to release our final feature complete beta.</p> <p>Please check out our list of new features on the <a href="http://www.mindsilver.com/guide/download">download</a> page.</p> <p>A short summary of changes (more detail in link above):</p> <p>* New Event Binding interface.<br /> * New 3rd party layout support for MigLayout and TableLayout.<br /> * Drag images synthesized for Linux and Windows.<br /> * New Controller creation interface.<br /> * Charset support.<br /> * Complete overhaul of editing nested containers.<br /> * PathBar - breadcrumb like thing.<br /> * New hint layer for undiscoverable features.<br /> * Complete error handing overhaul.<br /> * Selection semantics overhaul.<br /> * Native plaform installation.<br /> * Big memory consumption and startup performance improvements.<br /> * Layout stability improvements.</p> <p>Please give us your feedback on this new release. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/feature-request-component-naming#post-21 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:56:43 +0000 brendon 21@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>This is complete in the latest beta. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/first-impression#post-20 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:45:06 +0000 twayyech 20@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>it is very very Nice </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/first-impression#post-19 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:22:31 +0000 brendon 19@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi Kevin,</p> <p>Thanks for the feedback. We hope you do get attached :)</p> <p>We're haven't made a price point decision yet, so I can't give you a definitive answer. But we are aware of the market in which we operate, and I'm sure we'll be priced below our primary competition. We'll let everyone know when we release.</p> <p>Keep the feedback coming,</p> <p>Brendon McLean<br /> Mindsilver </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/first-impression#post-18 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:25:30 +0000 kevin morgan 18@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Great work! First, I'm not a professional programmer; however, programming is embedded in my job function and I'm always looking for paradigms that fit my 'thought processes'. Guide is such a product and I'm very excited to see how it develops out. Second, I have never given any feedback on any products that I use, so kudos! Third, I'm curious as to the price range you guys are going to be targeting, that way, if it's too high I know not to get to attached...ha! Irrespective of price, once again, thanks for making such a great product and as I delve deeper I'll endeavor to keep giving feedback.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Kevin </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/feature-request-component-naming#post-17 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:00:37 +0000 brendon 17@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi Ian,</p> <p>I'll add this to our internal issue database. Your suggested solution to the problem is exactly how we'd solve the problem. I'm not sure where this feature fits in our list of priorities. When we started with GUIDE, our intention was that the archives would be something the user never had to worry about. In fact, we initially saved them in XML. </p> <p>But as the product evolved and we switched to Java, we did find ourselves being more and more chuffed with our ever improving code-generation algorithm. Maybe we can get this in for version 1.0.</p> <p>Thanks for the feedback.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Brendon McLean. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/feature-request-component-naming#post-16 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:06:55 +0000 ianp 16@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>First off let me say I really like what I've seen so far! This looks like the first UI builder that I may actually end up using.</p> <p>Now, my request: there doesn't seem to be a way to name the local variables used in the generated code, renaming them outside of GUIDE means that my names just get discarded the next time I make a change in GUIDE. At first I thought that it was a compiler thing but I have checked to make sure the local variable table attribute is being generated.</p> <p>Another request: in the component property inspector (bottom right) it doesn't show the "name" property.</p> <p>I'm mainly mentioning this as it may be possible to link the 2 (assuming that it's a ton of work to support local variables via the LVT). I'd like an option of using the component name as the local variable name, it makes sense for GUIDE to enforce a uniqueness constraint on the component names anyway, so this would ensure that there are no name collisions in the created method, and adding a few <code>component.setName(&quot;foo&quot;)</code> calls wouldn't clutter up the generated code too much.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Ian. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/looks-really-impressive#post-15 Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:45:35 +0000 brendon 15@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for the feedback David. I've fixed the link. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/looks-really-impressive#post-14 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:13:14 +0000 David Stevens 14@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Haven't had a chance to play around yet, but the screen-cast looks very good.</p> <p>Just a minor bug I've noticed is that the link for the documentation on GUIDE's welcome screen is broken (<a href="http://www.mindsilver.com/docs/index.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.mindsilver.com/docs/index.php</a> should be <a href="http://www.mindsilver.com/guide/docs/index.php)" rel="nofollow">http://www.mindsilver.com/guide/docs/index.php)</a>.</p> <p>This certainly looks a lot better than Matisse in Netbeans :)</p> <p>David </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/congratulations-to-an-amazing-product#post-7 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:55:35 +0000 brendon 7@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Mikhael,</p> <p>Thanks for the words of encouragement. We're definitely going to be giving MigLayout a look. We were trying to focus on getting one layout manager "right" for the first release, but ultimately aim to support as many as we can handle. FormLayout has been a joy to use, but we're always looking at how we can improve. Most noticeably absent from FormLayout is baseline support, so it makes sense for us to look at your layout next.</p> <p>We'll give you a shout when there's something to play with.</p> <p>Thanks again,<br /> Brendon McLean. </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/adding-components-to-the-palette#post-6 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:47:30 +0000 brendon 6@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>Hi Michael,</p> <p>I am <em>really</em> sorry that I didn't get back to you sooner. I had no idea that bbPress doesn't send email notifications so I've just assumed that people have been preferring email over the forums (which makes me think, how will you ever know that I've replied to this?).</p> <p>GUIDE can use any components with certain restrictions. Components should:</p> <ul> <li>Have a no-arg constructor.</li> <li>Be available on the classpath (with any dependencies they need to run)</li> <li>Ideally, it should sensible defaults so it paints something visible and has a decent preferred size</li> </ul> <p>To use something inside a JAR file, first make sure that GUIDE is aware the JAR file in Project Settings. If it is, you should see you JAR file appear in the project browser on the left. You can simply drag the constructor of the component onto your palette.</p> <p>Sorry again for the late reply </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/congratulations-to-an-amazing-product#post-5 Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:07:25 +0000 mikaelgrev 5@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>I will admit, I haven't tested it yet but I have seen the whole video and it look amazing.</p> <p>Have you thought about MigLayout support? It resembles FormLayout but is more powerful. It even have a special IDE support .jar</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Mikael Grev </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/adding-components-to-the-palette#post-4 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:52:40 +0000 Loe 4@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>How can I add my own components, which are inside an jar-file, to the palette?</p> <p>Thx, Michael </p> http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/topic/welcome-to-first-guide-beta#post-2 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:21:04 +0000 brendon 2@http://www.mindsilver.com/forums/ <p>I've just got the forums up, so hopefully we can get the feedback out in the open. For those who have already given us feedback, thank you so much for time and effort you've put in. We will let each one of you know when we've addressed any problems that you've run into.</p> <p>For those joining us, please feel free to comment on issues you have run into or any questions you may have.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Brendon<br /> Mindsilver </p>