“Automatic updates” for Java (desktop) application?
Have you looked at the Java Web Start? It checks for updated module on the server and downloads it only if required otherwise things are cached locally on the client PC and starts from there.
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Integrating JavaFX 2.0 WebView into a Swing Java SE 6 Application
It is very well possible! One has to install JavaFX 2.0, and somehow manage to have jfxrt.jar in the Classpath. The following code renders a JFXPanel inside a JFrame. The JFXPanel contains a WebView which loads google.com. However, at least on my machine, the WebView feels rather sloppy. I’m working on Mac OS X 10.6; … Read more
Can WPF applications be run in Linux or Mac with .Net Core 3?
No, they have clearly stated that these are windows only. In one of the .NET Core 3.0 discussions, they have also clarified that they do not intend to make these features cross-platform in the future since the whole concept is derived from windows specific features. They talked about thinking of a whole new idea for … Read more
Desktop API is not supported on the current platform
Basically, the problem is that Java Desktop integration doesn’t work well on Linux. It was designed to work good with Windows; something works on other systems, but nobody really cared to add proper support for those. Even if you install the required ‘gnome libraries’, the results will be poor. I’ve faced the very same problem … Read more
Take screenshot of multiple desktops of all visible applications and forms
i tried GetDesktopWindow() function but it doesn’t work properly. Of course not. The GetDesktopWindow function returns a handle to the desktop window. It doesn’t have anything to do with capturing an image of that window. Besides, the desktop window is not the same thing as “the entire screen”. It refers specifically to the desktop window. … Read more
How to develop Desktop Apps using HTML/CSS/JavaScript? [closed]
You may start with Titanium for desktop dev. Also you may have a look at Chromium Embedded Framework. It’s basically a web browser control based on chromium. It’s written in C++ so you can do all the low level OS stuff you want(Growl, tray icons, local file access, com ports, etc) in your container app, … Read more
How to build a SystemTray app for Windows?
You do this using the pywin32 (Python for Windows Extensions) module. Example Code for Python 2 Similar Question To make it run at startup you could mess around with services but it’s actually much easier to install a link to the exe in the users “Startup Folder”. Windows 7 and Vista c:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Windows XP … Read more
What’s Java Hybrid – Applet + Application?
A hybrid applet/application simply abstracts the initialization of two top-level containers, JFrame and JApplet. Examples are seen here, here and here. Addendum: How does that work? The first example exposes a factory method, createGUI(), and it adds the returned panel to the extant top-level container. The second provides a static initContainer() method, passing the enclosing … Read more
Implementing a Text Editor
I’m sorry people downvoted you without explaining why you deserve them. I’m guessing people think your question isn’t educated enough? But in any case, I’ll try to get you started. I am not educated enough to answer your question, but I can show you how you can answer it yourself and probably learn a lot … Read more
Passing data from one desktop/web application to another desktop app
You can share the data between processes using named-pipes or windows .net remoting This wikipedia article discusses different options for inter-process communication, If you want to send data to web site you can expose a web service.