In addition to my internship, I have another job programming this summer. Before school let out, one of the assistant principals (AP) at my school approached me about writing a program for him. With the AP in charge of the master schedule retiring, he is taking over this responsibility, and asked me to write a Drag-and-Drop application to do this. The best part is, that I am being compensated for this. If all goes well, I might be able to pilot this program to all the middle and high schools in my school system.
So what exactly does this program need to do?
With these functionality requirements, I have (had) to work with APIs and tools I've never used before including:
-Java Drag and Drop
-Sending a Report to a Printer
Thus far, I have (after a lot of research) extended the JTable and JButtons to support Drag-and-Drop functionality, as well as import the CSV Files using SwingWorkers in the background. This has taken ~20 hours of work, and I estimate to be ~30% of the project.
So what exactly does this program need to do?
- Dragging and Dropping JButtons representing classes into spots into a JTable, and being able to drag and drop these JButtons within the JTable.
- Importing Courses and Teachers from CSV Files
- Saving the current setup to resume later
- Starting a new project
- Printing the list
With these functionality requirements, I have (had) to work with APIs and tools I've never used before including:
-Java Drag and Drop
-Sending a Report to a Printer
Thus far, I have (after a lot of research) extended the JTable and JButtons to support Drag-and-Drop functionality, as well as import the CSV Files using SwingWorkers in the background. This has taken ~20 hours of work, and I estimate to be ~30% of the project.
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DaneAU
29 June 2010 - 02:54 PM
Goodwork mate, always good to have active responsibility; it definitely drives the will to learn further than mundane assignments, mainly the reason for this is that you know there is an end user


DillonSalsman
29 June 2010 - 04:25 PM
I would like to ask for and suggest writing a tutorial for drag&drop components. This interests me and I think would be a hit for java hobbyists. :]

bioshock
04 August 2010 - 05:24 PM
Hi, as you know, I Am on the same "boat" like you
Hope you get it all! Best of luck!

Hope you get it all! Best of luck!

kr4m0llz27
18 August 2010 - 08:03 PM
Soundz gud and intiresting , i agree with Dillonsalsman . P0st a tut0rial h0w i g0es.

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