Introduction
Towel is a project to provide some facilities to the swing development, such as: Models for Components, JTable related decorators, Component binder for Forms, a new and interesting ActionManager.
Some utilities classes such Expression and the ConfigurationUtils.
See the Changelog for know about updates and versions.
Towel features:
- Models
- Binder - Bind all the fields of a form to a object with annotations
- ConfigurationUtils - Just save the preferences
- ActionManager - Map JButton directly to methods
- Expression - Solve math formulas as Strings
- JImagePanel - A JPanel with suports a background image.
- TableFilter - A JTable decorator, with give supports to filtering and sortering like excel does.
- Collections:
- See our Brainstorm
- Get the source code and find something interesting to create or improve a existing solution.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels.
"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant beaches of Santraginus V; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine on the desert world of Kakrafoon; wet it for use in hand-tohand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.
More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."