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A Swing demo that utilizes the Looks and Forms

Skeleton is a small Swing demo application that can help you get started with Swing. It incorporates user interface and architectural patterns that scale well up to medium sized apps.

Skeleton utilizes the JGoodies Looks, JGoodies Forms and components that have been extracted from the JGoodies Swing Suite. The JGoodies Looks ensure a high-fidelity appearance, Forms helps to build consistent and elegant panels quickly. And the components from the JGoodies Swing Suite provide an elegant appearance.

Requirements

Skeleton requires Java 5 or later, the JGoodies Forms and the JGoodies Looks.

Distribution Contents

docs/api   JavaDocs directory
 
src/main   sources and runtime resources for the application core
src/photoshop   application design time Photoshop resources
 
LICENSE.txt   the BSD open source license agreement
README.html   this readme file
RELEASE-NOTES.txt   information about changes and bug fixes
build.xml   ANT build file
default.properties   ANT default build properties
skeleton-1.9.6.jar   the executable JAR for the application

User's Guide

The application is about editing propeller shaft data. It is an extract from a real-world application that helps ship inspectors check and verify whether a propeller shaft is conform with a set of ship and machinery building rules.

You can either create a new project or load an existing. In both cases this demo will create a sample project. You can browse the project components in the navigator, in the left. If you select a node in the navigator, an appropriate viewer shows up on the right side.

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